title: The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c.1000-264 BC) (The Routledge History of the Ancient World)
author: T. J.  Cornell
description: <strong>'Cornell's is the most authoritative study of early Roman history to have been written by a single author since Beloch's <em>Romanische Geschichte</em> of 1926. <em>The Beginnings of Rome</em> is an authoritative, important, and timely book from which we are all benefiting, and from which much subsequent study of early Rome will start.'</strong> - <em>The Classical Review</em>
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  History of Rome
  
  
  [PREFACE.](History%20of%20Rome_split_001.html#filepos12214)
  
  
  [HISTORY OF ROME](History%20of%20Rome_split_002.html#filepos15486)
  
  [INTRODUCTION.](History%20of%20Rome_split_003.html#filepos15749)
  
  
    
    
  [CHAPTER I. GEOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE OF
  ITALY.](History%20of%20Rome_split_003.html#filepos15842)  
    
  [CHAPTER II. THE LATIN LANGUAGE AND
  
  
  PEOPLE—CREDIBILITY OF THE EARLY HISTORY.  
    
  [CHAPTER III. THE TOPOGRAPHY OF
  ROME.](History%20of%20Rome_split_003.html#filepos48606)  
    
  [CHAPTER IV. THE ROMAN
  CONSTITUTION.](History%20of%20Rome_split_003.html#filepos67623)  
    
  [CHAPTER V. THE ROMAN TENURE OF LAND—COLONIAL
  
  
  GOVERNMENT.  
    
  [CHAPTER VI. THE ROMAN
  RELIGION.](History%20of%20Rome_split_003.html#filepos91478)  
    
  [CHAPTER VII. THE ROMAN ARMY AND
  NAVY.](History%20of%20Rome_split_003.html#filepos101850)  
    
  [CHAPTER VIII. ROMAN
  LAW—FINANCE.](History%20of%20Rome_split_003.html#filepos122882)  
    
  [CHAPTER IX. THE PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS AND PRIVA