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Episode 1: In the Beginning
SOURCE NOTESPrimary Sources
- Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, Book I (trans. B.O. Foster, Loeb Classical Library, 1919; also R.M. Ogilvie, Penguin, 1960)
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, Books I–II (trans. E. Cary, Loeb Classical Library, 1937)
- Plutarch, Life of Romulus (trans. B. Perrin, Loeb Classical Library, 1914)
- Ovid, Fasti, Book IV (on the founding date)
- T.J. Cornell, The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (Routledge, 1995) — the essential modern scholarly treatment
- Andrea Carandini, Rome: Day One (Princeton University Press, 2011) — argues for more historical kernel in the myth
- Gary Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome (University of California Press, 2005) — more skeptical approach
- Massimo Pallottino, The Etruscans (Penguin, 1975)
- Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Profile Books, 2015) — accessible modern survey
- Carandini's excavations on the Palatine from the 1980s onward
- The Forum cemetery evidence: archaic burials indicate pre-urban use of the Forum valley
- Pietro Romanelli and subsequent work on Palatine hut remains
- Christopher Smith, Early Rome and Latium (Oxford University Press, 1996)
- Graeme Barker and Tom Rasmussen, The Etruscans (Blackwell, 1998) — comparative context for Iron Age central Italy
- Walter Scheidel, Debating Roman Demography (Brill, 2001) — on mortality and population
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By Hugo PrudentiusSOURCE NOTESPrimary Sources
- Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, Book I (trans. B.O. Foster, Loeb Classical Library, 1919; also R.M. Ogilvie, Penguin, 1960)
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, Books I–II (trans. E. Cary, Loeb Classical Library, 1937)
- Plutarch, Life of Romulus (trans. B. Perrin, Loeb Classical Library, 1914)
- Ovid, Fasti, Book IV (on the founding date)
- T.J. Cornell, The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (Routledge, 1995) — the essential modern scholarly treatment
- Andrea Carandini, Rome: Day One (Princeton University Press, 2011) — argues for more historical kernel in the myth
- Gary Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome (University of California Press, 2005) — more skeptical approach
- Massimo Pallottino, The Etruscans (Penguin, 1975)
- Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Profile Books, 2015) — accessible modern survey
- Carandini's excavations on the Palatine from the 1980s onward
- The Forum cemetery evidence: archaic burials indicate pre-urban use of the Forum valley
- Pietro Romanelli and subsequent work on Palatine hut remains
- Christopher Smith, Early Rome and Latium (Oxford University Press, 1996)
- Graeme Barker and Tom Rasmussen, The Etruscans (Blackwell, 1998) — comparative context for Iron Age central Italy
- Walter Scheidel, Debating Roman Demography (Brill, 2001) — on mortality and population