James H. Richardson is Lecturer in Classics at Massey University. He is the author of The Fabii and the Gauls: Studies in Historical Thought and Historiography in Republican Rome and various articles on Roman history.Federico Santangelo is Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University. He is a graduate of the University of Bologna and University College London. He has published on various aspects of Roman Republican history and is the author of Sulla, the Elites and the Empire: A Study of Roman Policies in Italy and the Greek East (2007) and Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2013).

• Abbreviations ; Introduction ; 1. The Myth of Romulus and the Origins of Rome ; 2. Numa and Pythagoras: The Life and Death of a Myth ; 3. Demaratus and the 'Corinthian' Kings of Rome ; 4. The Enigma of Servius Tullius ; 5. The Legend of Lucius Brutus ; 6. Three Roman Aetiological Myths ; 7. The Fabii at the River Cremera and the Spartans at Thermopylae ; 8. Studies in Dionysius of Halicarnassus III: The Agrarian Bill of Spurius Cassius ; 9. The Roman History of Roman Colonisation ; 10. The Lex Ouinia and the Emancipation of the Senate ; 11. Qualis pater, talis filius? ; 12. Cicero the Historian and Cicero the Antiquarian ; 13. The Tradition of the Spolia Opima: M. Claudius Marcellus and Augustus ; Bibliography ; Acknowledgements

the editors have done us a service in assembling and editing this collection, and I should recommend it to those wishing to familiarise or refamiliarise themselves with past and present trends and problems in the study of early Rome.