Roman Hegemony in Latium (Mommsen 1.7) (Read Mommsen 1.7 online.) Mommsen, in a charming image, laments the lack of a Roman Homer who might show us the city’s ‘boyhood,’ but he attempts to Continue Reading →
Non-citizens & constitutional change (Mommsen 1.6) One of the difficulties of Dickson’s translation is the use of the word ‘burgess’ where we should prefer ‘citizen.’ ‘Burgess’ sounds archaic and sugge Continue Reading →
Reading Rome (Mommsen, 1.4) Mommsen continues to rely upon dubious etymology to make historical conjectures, but several times seems aware of the relative unimportance of such sp Continue Reading →
