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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  ROME
  From Its Foundation
  to the Present
  Stewart Perowne
  Illustrated with 180 photographs and
  line drawings; 24 pages of color plates
  CIVILIZED Europe
  is a
  tale of three
  cities
  Athens,
  Jerusalem, and Rome.
  It
  is 2,500
  years since Athens bestowed upon mankind
  immortal yifts of mind and spirit and an architec-
  ture that expounded them. It is more than four cen-
  turies since any masterpiece was erected in Jerusalem,
  the earthly image of a kingdom not of this world.
  Rome is different—the Eternal City we call
  it, as the
  Romans themselves called
  it. They celebrated the
  birthday of their mother city on April 2 1
  ; they still
  do. For us of the twentieth century, Rome
  is, as she
  has long been, the child of a union between Athens
  and Jerusalem, a center of the arts, and the focus of
  the Christian
  faith, but her ancestry.^goes back
  to
  the eighth century B.C. And Rome has never stopped.
  No other city has done
  this, and therefo