Guy Bradley is Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University.

• Preface and acknowledgementsAbbreviationsSources and ApproachesWestern Italy from the Bronze Age to the Orientalising period Myths and legends of the foundation of RomeKingshipUrbanism and city foundationEconomy and society in archaic Rome and central Italy Rome in the early RepublicRoman foreign relations in sixth, fifth and fourth centuries BC Rome and Italy 338 - 290 BC: conquest and accommodation Rome around 300 BC List of mapsList of illustrations

By stepping outside of the binary of optimists and pessimists in his approach to the literary evidence, and by judiciously interpreting the ever-increasing body of archaeological material, Guy Bradley offers an evenhanded and insightful narrative of the development of Rome in his Early Rome to 290 BC: The Beginnings of the City and the Rise of the Republic over the course of eleven chapters (six thematic chapters bringing us to the sixth century BCE followed by five more advancing to 290 BCE).

Guy Bradley is Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University.

• Preface and acknowledgementsAbbreviationsSources and ApproachesWestern Italy from the Bronze Age to the Orientalising period Myths and legends of the foundation of RomeKingshipUrbanism and city foundationEconomy and society in archaic Rome and central Italy Rome in the early RepublicRoman foreign relations in sixth, fifth and fourth centuries BC Rome and Italy 338 - 290 BC: conquest and accommodation Rome around 300 BC List of mapsList of illustrations

By stepping outside of the binary of optimists and pessimists in his approach to the literary evidence, and by judiciously interpreting the ever-increasing body of archaeological material, Guy Bradley offers an evenhanded and insightful narrative of the development of Rome in his Early Rome to 290 BC: The Beginnings of the City and the Rise of the Republic over the course of eleven chapters (six thematic chapters bringing us to the sixth century BCE followed by five more advancing to 290 BCE).

Guy Bradley is Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University.

• Preface and acknowledgementsAbbreviationsSources and ApproachesWestern Italy from the Bronze Age to the Orientalising period Myths and legends of the foundation of RomeKingshipUrbanism and city foundationEconomy and society in archaic Rome and central Italy Rome in the early RepublicRoman foreign relations in sixth, fifth and fourth centuries BC Rome and Italy 338 - 290 BC: conquest and accommodation Rome around 300 BC List of mapsList of illustrations

By stepping outside of the binary of optimists and pessimists in his approach to the literary evidence, and by judiciously interpreting the ever-increasing body of archaeological material, Guy Bradley offers an evenhanded and insightful narrative of the development of Rome in his Early Rome to 290 BC: The Beginnings of the City and the Rise of the Republic over the course of eleven chapters (six thematic chapters bringing us to the sixth century BCE followed by five more advancing to 290 BCE).