The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars, T. J. Cornell's 1995 study from Routledge, is the standard modern scholarly history of early Rome by a leading historian of the Roman Republic, using archaeology alongside the literary tradition and treating legendary material, including the Camillus narrative, as later literary construction while confirming such narratives' existence and transmission. Its strength is that critical, archaeology-grounded synthesis. Its limit is that reconstructing early Roman history from fragmentary archaeology and a much later literary tradition remains genuinely contested; treat this as an authoritative but not unchallenged scholarly position.
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T. J. Cornell's The Beginnings of Rome, Routledge, 1995, the top tier reflecting the standard modern scholarly history of early Rome by a leading historian of the Roman Republic, grounded in archaeology alongside the literary tradition. Its limit is the ordinary one for any reconstruction of early Roman history from fragmentary evidence: an authoritative but not unchallenged scholarly position. NotesThe standard modern scholarly history of early Rome using archaeology alongside the literary tradition. Treats the Camillus narrative (his exile, recall after the 390 BCE Gallic sack, and role as "second founder") critically as later literary and moralising construction rather than straightforward record; use to confirm the narrative's existence and transmission in Roman tradition, not as endorsement of its historicity.
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AuthorT. J. Cornell
PublisherRoutledge
Publication Year1995
URLhttps://www.routledge.com/The-Beginnings-of-Rome-Italy-and-Rome-from-the-Bronze-Age-to-the-Punic-Wars-c1000-264-BC/Cornell/p/book/9780415015967
Source Typeacademic monograph
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This source names Italy directly: "The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars, T."
Rome, Cities This source names Rome directly: "The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars, T."
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