Das frühe Rom und die Latiner. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Fr. Kolb. - ALFÖLDI, A.,

KORTE INHOUD

'This is one of the fullest surveys of the problems of early Rome to have appeared in recent years. (...) Alföldi's thesis is that Rome only became an independent sovereign state shortly before the battle of Lake Regillus (496 B.C.). In the earliest times, before a proper city had been built, the community of shepherd-warriors which was the Latin nucleus of the Roman people was 'governed by Alba Longa'. The evidence for this is Roman participation in the festival of Iuppiter Latiaris on the Alban mount and the legends which linked the foundation of Rome and Alba Longa. Later, when Alba Longa declined, Rome passed into the power of Lavinium, which took over the control of the Latin federation. (...) In arguing this thesis Alföldi dismisses most of the grandiose stories about Roman achievements under the kings as romanticizing inventions by Fabius Pictor, the first Roman historian. The same conclusion can be reached by observing how many of these stories are Greek stories in Roman guise. And Alföldi is clearly ... Lees verder...

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1977Uitgever: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft604 paginasISBN-10: 3534075382ISBN-13: 9783534075386