Early Rome to 290 BC : the beginnings of the city and the rise of the Republic /
Guy Bradley.
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (xx, 412 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- The Edinburgh history of Ancient Rome .
Includes bibliographies and index.
1. Sources and approaches -- 2. Early Italy, from the Bronze Age to the classical era -- 3. Myths and legends of the foundation of Rome -- 4. Kingship -- 5. Urbanism and city foundation -- 6. Economy and society in archaic Rome and central Italy -- 7. Rome in the early Republic -- 8. Roman foreign relations in the sixth, fifth and fourth centuries BC -- 9. Rome and Italy 338-290 BC : conquest and accommodation -- 10. Rome around 300 BC -- 11. Conclusion.
"In the first few centuries of its existence, Rome developed from a minor settlement on the Tiber into the most powerful city-state in Italy. Guy Bradley examines the reasons for Rome's emergence and success within a highly competitive Italian environment, and how much it owed to its neighbours. He explains how many of Rome's key characteristics, such as its powerful ruling elite, its stable political institutions, its openness to outsiders, and its intensely militaristic society, were shaped by their origins in the monarchy and early Republic."--