... anthropology. Some legal historians had long emphasised the role of gentes in the administration of communal lands or the regulation of elite marriage in early Rome. It is telling that the debate on Roman imperialism has not progressed much in the last decades, in sharp contrast with what has...

... of the later republic set about reconstructing and writing down their history, they understandably used contemporary values and practices to describe events in their past, creating anachronisms that imposed a false image of continuity and consistency upon the military practices of early Rome. Legion s...

... earliest historical sources date from the first century BC, it is obvious that neither they nor their earliest sources could have had authentic knowledge of early Rome. The essays in this book address the problem both directly and indirectly, firstly by scrutinising the material our...

.... This volume presents new ways of looking at ancient Italian communities that did not leave written accounts about themselves but played a key role in the development of early Rome, first as staunch opponents and later as key allies. It combines texts and archaeology to form a new understanding of the ancient...