The History of Rome, Book 2: From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy by Theodor Mommsen
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Overview: Nobel Prize in Literature, 1902
Book two of Theodore Mommsen’s history begins in 509 BC, when the last Roman king was expelled and a republican form of government was formed. Starting here, we trace Rome’s political and cultural development under an aristocracy whose puritan fanaticism is legendary. But security from surrounding hostile tribes was of uppermost concern, and the city was constantly at war with one tribe or another.
During the fifth century BC, the Republic’s energies were directed toward uniting or subduing her nearby Latin-speaking neighbors. By the beginning of the fourth century BC, Rome was in control of a Latin league. Following the devastating sack of Rome in 390 BC by a Celtic tribe that descended from the Po Valley, the Republic quickly recovered and resumed its confrontation with neighboring tribes. By mid-fourth century the Etruscans to the north, the Sabines to the east, and the Volscians and other Campanian tribes in the south have been reduced. Only the mighty Samnites in the Apenines remained. After a war of almost 35 years, they surrendered.
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