Law and Justice (Mommsen 1.11) (Read Mommsen 1.11 online.) Mommsen gets poetic again, but first informs us that ‘the doings and dealings, the thoughts and imaginings of the individu
Sabellians, Etruscans, and Greeks! O my! (Mommsen 1.8-10) Chapters 8 through 10 form a unit that covers the other major populations in Italy before and during the establishment of Rome’s hegemony, and one of Continue Reading →
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 →
