Early Rome to 290 BC: The Beginnings of the City and the Rise of the Republic

by Guy Bradley

Overview

A new view of early Rome as a highly mobile society within a wider interconnected Mediterranean network

Covers the rise of Rome from small scale community to supremacy in central ItalyUses the latest archaeological evidence to demonstrate the sophisticated and cosmopolitan nature of early RomeAnalyses the origins of Rome's Republican form of government and of its aggressive drive to conquerIn 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748621095
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	10/27/2020
Series:	The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Guy Bradley is Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University.

Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgementsAbbreviations
1. Sources and Approaches
2. Western Italy from the Bronze Age to the Orientalising period
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 sixth, fifth and fourth centuries BC
9. Rome and Italy 338 - 290 BC: conquest and accommodation
10. Rome around 300 BC

List of mapsList of illustrations

What People are Saying About This

Guy Bradley’s monumental study of early Rome represents the most balanced and scholarly account we have. His grasp of the archaeological material, the literary evidence and the theoretical frameworks is second to none, and this is now the standard account against which all rival interpretations will be measured.

University of St Andrew's Christopher Smith

Guy Bradley’s monumental study of early Rome represents the most balanced and scholarly account we have. His grasp of the archaeological material, the literary evidence and the theoretical frameworks is second to none, and this is now the standard account against which all rival interpretations will be measured.

Editorial Reviews

Overall, there can be no doubt that this book captures the broad outlines very clearly and offers a good representation of the increasingly optimistic tendencies in scholarship, which are based on a growing material basis and on bold models.

Histos 16, 2022 - Uwe Walter

Guy Bradley’s Early Rome to 290 BC is an engaging analysis of Rome’s ascension from a small hillside community to a supreme power in central Italy. I found it both accessible and scholarly, and enjoyed the way it presents the latest archaeological evidence in tables, maps and illustrations.

The Journal of Classics Teaching (2022), 1–3 - Juliana Costa-Veysey

By stepping outside of the binary of optimists and pessimists in his approach to the literary evidence, and by judiciously interpreting the ever-increasing body of archaeological material, Guy Bradley offers an evenhanded and insightful narrative of the development of Rome in his Early Rome to 290 BC: The Beginnings of the City and the Rise of the Republic over the course of eleven chapters (six thematic chapters bringing us to the sixth century BCE followed by five more advancing to 290 BCE).

Ancient World Magazine - Parrish Elizabeth Wright

Guy Bradley’s monumental study of early Rome represents the most balanced and scholarly account we have. His grasp of the archaeological material, the literary evidence and the theoretical frameworks is second to none, and this is now the standard account against which all rival interpretations will be measured.

University of St Andrew's Christopher Smith