Episode 3. The Etruscan Kings

SOURCE NOTES:Primary Sources:Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, Books 1.34–60 — The principal narrative source for the Etruscan kings, written in the Augustan period.Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, Books 3–4 — A parallel account, often more detailed than Livy, with a Greek rhetorical perspective.Tabula Claudiana (ILS 212) — The bronze tablet from Lyon preserving Claudius's speech identifying Servius Tullius with Mastarna.Cicero, De Re Publica, Book 2 — A philosophical dialogue that includes a substantial account of the kings and the transition to Republic.Secondary Sources:T.J. Cornell, The Beginnings of Rome (Routledge, 1995) — The essential scholarly treatment of the regal period and early Republic. Cornell's careful handling of the sources is the standard for the field.Gary Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome (University of California Press, 2005) — A more skeptical assessment, particularly useful on the historiographical problems.Larissa Bonfante, ed., Etruscan Life and Afterlife (Wayne State University Press, 1986) — The standard introduction to Etruscan culture and its relationship to Rome.F. Coarelli, Rome and Environs (University of California Press, 2007) — Indispensable for the physical remains, including the François Tomb frescoes and the Capitoline substructure.