From the beginning, kings ruled Rome; Lucius Brutus established
freedom and the consulship. So wrote the Roman historian Tacitus in
the second century AD, but the view was orthodox. It is still
widely accepted today. But how could the Romans of later times have
possibly known anything about the origins of Rome, the rule and
subsequent expulsion of their kings or the creation of the Republic
when all those events took place centuries before anyone wrote any
account of them? And just how useful are those later accounts,
those few that happen to survive, when the Romans not only viewed
the past in light of the present but also retold stories of past
events in ways designed to meet contemporary needs? This book
attempts to assess what the Romans wrote about the early
development of their state. While it may not, in the end, be
possible to say very much about archaic Rome, it is certainly
possible to draw conclusions about later political ideas and their
influence on what the Romans said about their past, about the
writing of history at Rome and about the role that stories of past
events could play even centuries later.
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