Roma Aeterna: The Birth of the She-Wolf
Before the emperors, before the legions, before Rome was the center of the known world, there was a village of shepherds upon seven hills, a foundational fratricide, and a will to power that no century has ever fully managed to explain.
The Birth of the She-Wolf is the first volume of Eternal Rome, a narrative saga that traverses twelve centuries of Roman history, from its dark origins to the fall of the Western Empire. This book covers the most fascinating and uncertain period of that history: from the villages of Latium in the 8th century BC to the promulgation of the Twelve Tables in 450 BC-the moment when Rome ceased to be a city ruled by the whims of the powerful and became a community governed by written law.
Inside these pages, you will find:The geopolitical landscape of the Iron Age Mediterranean: Phoenicians, Greeks, Etruscans, and Latins competing in the crucible of the Italian peninsula.
The founding myth in all its complexity: The Trojan War, Aeneas, Romulus and Remus, and fratricide as a permanent metaphor for the Roman political condition.
The seven kings and the birth of the State: From Romulus the warrior to Tarquin the Proud, with all the institutional, religious, and infrastructural reforms that transformed a village into a city.
The end of the monarchy and the birth of the Republic: The consular system, the emergency dictatorship, and the invention of shared power.
The Conflict of the Orders between patricians and plebeians, and the conquest of written law as the first great victory of the excluded.
Written with the rigor of one who respects classical sources and the intellectual honesty of one who points out when archaeology contradicts them, The Birth of the She-Wolf is narrative history at its finest: gripping, well-researched, and capable of making the past speak to the present.
Series: Eternal Rome, Volume I.Related Subjects
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