Article: A Critical History of Early Rome.(Book review)

A Critical History of Early Rome. By Gary Forsythe. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 400. $45.00.)

Context is all. Everything that happened, happened at some time; political events require personalities. This is fortunate, because we can somewhat justify speaking of a chronology of political and military events in early Rome and--with more hesitation--of the politicians involved. Every book on this era contains the usual caveat about the wretched state of the literary sources, the paucity of documentary evidence, and the ambiguity of the archaeological record. Gary Forsythe sifts through the various recorded events and their ...

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