The Rise of Rome

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Livy’s early Roman history begins with foundation legend and follows Rome through the kings, the early Republic, conflict with neighbouring Italian peoples and the moral examples through which Augustan Rome imagined its past. It is useful for the stories of Romulus, the Tarquins, republican foundation, early wars, social conflict and the creation of Roman civic identity, though it blends legend, tradition and history rather than modern critical reconstruction.

Historical Periods

Roman Kingdom753–509 BCE Conflict of the Orders494–287 BCE Latin War340–338 BCE Samnite Wars343–290 BCE Pyrrhic War280–275 BCE Augustan Age27 BCE–14 CE Classical Historiography500 BCE–250 CE