![]() ![]() Historical events between the opening Cicero vs. The succession of kings, part mythical and part historical, which led up to the formation of the republic gets a fact-vs.-fiction review. She examines the competing origin myths of Romulus and Remus and settlement by refugees from Troy, and how they drew upon and influenced Romans' self-image. ![]() Soon enough, Beard drops back to an overview of origins, or the unlikely process by which a village on the Tiber became THE power in the Mediterranean and beyond for hundreds of years. ![]()
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