Episode 2. The Latin and Sabine Kings

SOURCE NOTES:Primary Sources:Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, Book I, Chapters 4–35 (trans. B.O. Foster, Loeb Classical Library; trans. A. de Sélincourt, Penguin Classics, The Early History of Rome, 1960)Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, Books I–IIIPlutarch, Life of Romulus; Life of NumaCicero, De Re Publica, Book II.12–33 — Cicero's survey of the first four kingsOvid, Fasti, Books I–VI — on the Roman calendar and its religious associationsFestus, De Verborum Significatu — valuable for archaic religious institutionsSecondary Sources:T.J. Cornell, The Beginnings of Rome (Routledge, 1995), Chapters 5–9 — essential on the regal periodGary Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome (University of California Press, 2005), Chapters 4–5Robert Ogilvie, A Commentary on Livy, Books 1–5 (Oxford University Press, 1965) — detailed commentary on the primary textMary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Profile Books, 2015), Chapter 3On Roman Religion and Numa's Institutions:John Scheid, An Introduction to Roman Religion (Indiana University Press, 2003)Mary Beard, John North, and Simon Price, Religions of Rome, Vol. I (Cambridge University Press, 1998) — the standard scholarly surveyGeorg Wissowa, Religion und Kultus der Römer (Munich, 1912) — foundational, though datedOn the Vestal Virgins:Ariadne Staples, From Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins: Sex and Category in Roman Religion (Routledge, 1998)Robin Lorsch Wildfang, Rome's Vestal Virgins (Routledge, 2006)On the Horatii and Curiatii:Livy I.23–26 — the primary accountThe story's historicity is discussed in Cornell, Beginnings, pp. 116–118, and Ogilvie, Commentary, pp. 107–116On Just War:W.V. Harris, War and Imperialism in Republican Rome (Oxford University Press, 1979) — essential on Roman warfare and its ideologyColeman Phillipson, The International Law and Custom of Ancient Greece and Rome, Vol. II (Macmillan, 1911) — dated but thorough on ius fetialeOn Ostia:Russell Meiggs, Roman Ostia (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 1973) — the standard work; dates the earliest significant archaeological evidence to the 4th century BCEFausto Zevi (ed.), Ostia, 2 vols. (Banco di Roma, 1996)