How do you understand a society that didn`t write down its own history? That is the problem with early Rome, from the Bronze Age down to the conquest of Italy around 300 BC. This book presents us with a picture of the early society of pre-literary Rome - as a free and uninhibited world in which the arts and popular entertainments flourished.
Peter Wiseman continues his efforts to rethink the history of Rome and Roman literature. This book is written in an accessible style, to make complex arguments intelligible and readable.