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§ 5 Contemporary historians of the next period: M. Porcius Cato,
Posidonius, Scipio Africanus the First, Scipio Nasica,
P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus
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6 Earliest contemporary native historians: L. Cincius Alimentus,
Q. Fabius Pictor
7 Greek contemporary writers of the Punic wars: Silenus, Sosilus,
Philinus .
8 Character of the contemporary historians of Rome during this period: they were trustworthy reporters of facts, but had little literary or philosophical merit
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The work of Livy was to a great extent a history of his own
time
Other contemporary sources of history during the same
period: public speeches, official records, laws
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II Copious authentic materials for the history of the last two cen- turies of the Republic extant in antiquity
12 Historical poems of Ennius, Accius, Hostius, and Nævius
13 Earliest points of contact between Greek and Roman history:
Italian expedition of Pyrrhus; embassy of Ptolemy Phila-
delphus to Rome; expeditions of Archidamus III., Alex-
ander king of Epirus, and Cleonymus to Italy
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14 Early ignorance of the Greeks respecting Rome
15 As soon as the Romans came in contact with the Greeks, they
were included in the Greek contemporary history.
16 Although the original contemporary historians of the last two
centuries of the Republic have perished, their accounts have
been preserved in the secondary histories which have come
down to us
On the Sources of Roman History, for the Period before
the War with Pyrrhus.
(753-281 B.C.)
§ I A received narrative of the events of the first 472 years of Rome
was extant in antiquity.
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Extant historical writers, by whom it has been preserved: Livy,
Dionysius, Florus, Eutropius, Orosius, the works De Ori-
gine Gentis Romance, and De Viris Illustribus Urbis Roma,
Diodorus, Plutarch, Appian, Dio Cassius, and Zonaras
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§3 Indirect sources of information respecting the early history
4 Universal belief in the received narrative of the early history in
the later period of the Republic..
5 The received narrative of the early history was formed by the
historians before Dionysius and Livy
6 Inquiry proposed, as to the materials from which they formed
this narrative
7 Q. Fabius Pictor, and L. Cincius Alimentus, the two earliest
Roman historians: their means of obtaining authentic in-
formation respecting the early history
8 Cato, as a writer of ancient history.
9 Subsequent historians of the early period.
10 Recent date of the writers who composed the early history of
11 Meaning of the term annales, as applied to the works of the
ancient Roman historians
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12 Hieronymus, Timæus, and other Greek historians, as autho- rities for the early Roman history
13 Difference between Greek and Roman historiography
CHAPTER IV.
On the Oral Traditions of Roman History, for the Period
before the War with Pyrrhus.
§ 1 Ordinary period for the preservation of events by oral tradition
2 Special circumstances by which this period might be extended;
commemorative festivals, anniversaries
3 Memorials of the regal period.
4 Written laws, as a nucleus of oral traditions.
5 Oral traditions respecting constitutional history
6 Oral traditions respecting ancient Italian ethnology
7 Inquiry proposed as to written sources of information accessible
to the earliest historians of the first five centuries.
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On the Public Records and Memorials of the Roman State,
for the Period before the War with Pyrrhus.
Casualties from fire and other causes to which ancient docu-
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The books of the pontiffs
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ments were exposed
Destruction of Roman archives in the Gallic conflagration
The annals kept by the pontifex maximus.
13 Records of the names of the annual magistrates
CHAPTER VI.
On the Private Memorials, and Historical Poems of Rome,
SI Deliberative speeches
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Funeral orations, and inscriptions for ancestorial images .
3 Family-histories and memoirs.
4 Histories of neighbouring states: chronicles of Cumæ, and Præ- neste; Sabine, Etruscan, and Massilian chronicles
5 Popular poems: hypothesis of Niebuhr examined.
CHAPTER VII.
On the Treatment of the Early Roman History by the
Extant Historians of Antiquity.
SI Essential characteristic of the history of the first 4 centuries
of Rome, that it was not derived from the writings of con-
temporary historians. .
tial fidelity the traditionary history of the first 4 centuries 245
3 Historical character of Livy: his treatment of the early history 247
4 Speeches in Dionysius and Livy.
5 Knowledge of Dionysius and Livy with respect to the early
constitution of Rome
6 Example of Livy's documentary accuracy
§ 7 General result, that the history of the first 4 centuries of Rome
cannot be traced to the testimony of credible and ascer-
tainable witnesses
8 Examination of the evidences of Roman history, in six succes-
sive periods, ending with the war of Pyrrhus, proposed.
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266
CHAPTER VIII.
On the Primitive History of the Nations of Italy.
National origin of the Romans: uncertainty of early ethnology 267
2 Earliest inhabitants of the Roman territory: the Siceli; the
Aborigines; the Pelasgians.
3 Tyrrhenians, Tyrrhenian Pelasgians, Etruscans
4 Arcadian colony to Rome under Evander .
5 Expedition of Hercules to Italy
6 Unhistorical nature of the accounts of the primitive ethnology
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of Italy
CHAPTER IX.
Eneas in Italy.
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Primitive line of Italian kings: Saturn, Picus, Faunus, and
Latinus
2 Eneas settles in Italy, and marries the daughter of Latinus
3 Greek legends respecting the returns of the heroes from Troy.
4 Various accounts respecting the migration of Æneas from Troy 303
5 Legends respecting the presence of Æneas in various parts of
Greece
6 Æneas in Southern Italy, Sicily, and Carthage
7 Æneas on the Western coast of Italy
8 Landing of Æneas at Laurentum on the coast of Latium: le-
gends relating to the presence of Ulysses in Italy and Sicily 326
9 Eneas in Latium; his settlement at Lavinium, and marriage with Lavinia; and his wars
The legend of Æneas in Latium mainly owing to the influence
of the Homeric poems
CHAPTER X.
The Alban Kingdom and the Foundation of Rome.
§ Ascanius, or Iulus, the son of Æneas, succeeds him as king of Lavinium: he founds Alba Longa, and transfers the kingdom to it.
2 Line of the Alban kings from Ascanius to Numitor
3 Chronology of the Alban kings
4 The accounts of the Alban kings are unhistorical
5 The Alban kings were derived from popular legends, and were
not a forgery of recent historians
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6 Accounts of the foundation of Rome: received foundation
legend of Romulus and Remus
8 Unhistorical nature of the legend of Romulus and Remus, and
of the other foundation legends of Rome. . .
9 Indigenous origin and ancient national acceptance of the legend
of Romulus and Remus .
CHAPTER XI.
The Seven Kings of Rome.
PART I.—THE REIGNS OF ROMULUS, NUMA, TULLUS HOSTILIUS,
AND ANCUS MARCIUS.
753-717 B.C.
Political acts of Romulus, after the foundation
of Rome: division of the people into tribes and curiæ, and
into patricians and plebeians: creation of the Senate:
institution of the Celeres: functions of the king: military
divisions: colonial system: religious institutes: laws on
private relations
3 Wars of Romulus with Canina, Antemnæ, and Crustumerium;
origin of the spolia opima, and the triumph
4 War of Titus Tatius and the Sabines against Rome: story of
Tarpeia: Mettus Curtius
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5 Peace is made through the interposition of the Sabine matrons 426
6 Joint rule of Romulus and Tatius.