Early Roman History to the fall of Tarquin
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The Roman annalists
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There followed a number of "annalists". An "annalist" is someone who embroiders historical events as opposed to someone we might regard as a historian, who exercises judgment over his use of sources. Thus, the annalists added material for which they had doubtful sources and allowed myth-making to predominate in their accounts. As the years progressed the work of successive annalists grew longer, indicative of the accretion into the original account of extraneous material. The first analysts were Cassius Hemina, and Calpurnius Piso. However, the Annales Maximi were published by Mucius Scaevola c. 131 BC, is a work of another kind, as will be discussed below. Another annalist was Cn. Gellius who wrote twenty books covering the period 500 - 300 BC. The work of annalists Valeris Antias and Licinius Macer are regarded as mainly works of fiction and their historiography is at a very low level. The annalists of the first century BC, Livy and the Greek, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, are credited with adding no more fiction, but they also did not apply rigorous standards of criticism to their material.
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Contents of
Early Roman History to the fall of Tarquin
1 Latium and Rome - the site of Rome
2 The ancient Latins
3 The problem of sources
4 Fabius Pictor and Cincius Alimentus
5 The Roman annalists
6 Greek references to early Roman history
7 The work of the Roman annalists
8 Primary sources for Roman history
9 Further primary sources for early Roman history
10 The traditional account of early Roman History from Livy
11 Ascanius
12 Romulus
13 Numa Pmplius
14 Tulius Hostilius
15 Mettius
16 Ancus Marcius
17 Tarquinius Priscus
18 Servius Tullius
19 Tarquinius Superbus
20 The Rape of Lucretia
21 Lars Porsenna
22 Rome, Latium and the foundation of Rome c. 1200 BC - c. 750 BC
23 The founding of Rome
24 Mont Cavo in the Alban Hills
25 The Palatine Hill
26 The myth of the Sabine women
27 The early Kings of Rome c. 750 BC - c. 600 BC
28 Early constitution of Rome
29 The period of the Etruscan preponderance: c. 600 BC - c. 510 BC
30 The reign of Servius
31 The reign of Tarquinius Superbus
32 The foundation of the Roman Republic
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