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Episode 4. The Fall of the Monarchy

Works Cited Primary Sources

Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Roman Antiquities. Books IV–V. Parallel account, often preserving variant traditions; particularly useful on the Porsena episode.
Fasti Consulares. The consular list, the institutional record that attests Brutus and Collatinus as the Republic’s first consuls.
Livy. Ab Urbe Condita. Books I.56–II.14. The principal narrative for the fall of the monarchy and the early Republic, including the Gabii stratagem, Lucretia, Brutus, Silva Arsia, Lars Porsena, and Lake Regillus.
Pliny the Elder. Natural History. 34.139. The passage preserving the alternative tradition that Porsena captured Rome.
Plutarch. “Life of Publicola.” Plutarch’s Lives. The primary character study of Valerius Publicola, one of the Republic’s founders; essential for the political atmosphere of 509–504 BCE.

Secondary Sources

Cornell, T. J. The Beginnings of Rome. Routledge, 1995. The essential treatment, including careful analysis of the Porsena problem and the historicity of Lake Regillus.
Dench, Emma. Romulus’ Asylum. Oxford University Press, 2005. Illuminating on how Rome constructed its foundational myths, including the Lucretia narrative.
Drummond, Andrew. “Rome in the Fifth Century.” Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. VII.2, Chapter 4. The standard scholarly treatment of the transition from monarchy to Republic.
Forsythe, Gary. A Critical History of Early Rome. University of California Press, 2005. Particularly skeptical and useful on the Brutus tradition and the legendary elements of the early Republic.

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