Table of Contents
Maps vii
About the Author x
List of Plates xi
Introduction xvii
Chapter 1 Interpretatio Romana - 'Translating' the Greek and the Beginnings of Roman History 1
Chapter 2 The Gods of War 11
Chapter 3 Wall-to-Wall War & the Fetiales 28
Chapter 4 The Aeneas Foundation Myth: From Troy to Italy 40
Chapter 5 The Aeneas Foundation Myth: The Italian Wars 65
Chapter 6 The Romulus and Remus Foundation Myth 77
Chapter 7 Abduction, Rape and Murdering Your Daughter - All in the Name of History 90
Chapter 8 Warlike Women in Roman Epic 118
Chapter 9 Trojan Heroes 131
Chapter 10 Horace and Propertius 137
Chapter 11 Ovid 152
Chapter 12 The Theban Legion Massacre 286 CE: Myth or History? 174
Chapter 13 The View from the Bridge: The Vision of Constantine 177
Epilogue 181
Appendix I The Seven Kings of Rome 183
Appendix II Timeline 1 - The Mythical Age 184
Appendix III The Alban Kings 185
Appendix IV Timeline 2: Octavian (Augustus), 133-27BCE 187
Appendix V The Archaeology of Early Rome 189
Appendix VI Dating the Foundation 191
Appendix VII Some Latin Terms 193
Appendix VIII Typical Cursus Honorum in the First Century BCE 198
Appendix IX Roman Assemblies 199
Appendix X The Mos Maiorum 200
Notes 202
Further Reading 210
Index 228