Acknowledgements - Introduction - The People and the State in Early Rome - The King and the Constitution: Elections and Hereditary Succession in Regal Rome - The Oath per Iovem lapidem and the Community in Archaic Rome - Rome's Treaties with Carthage: Jigsaw or Variant Traditions? - Ancient Historical Thought and the Development of the Consulship - The Roman Nobility, the Early Consular Fasti and the Consular Tribunate - 'Firsts' and the Historians of Rome - L. Iunius Brutus the Patrician and the Political Allegiance of Q. Aelius Tubero - Bibliography - Index.
James H. Richardson is Associate Professor of Classics at Massey University. He is the author of The Fabii and the Gauls: Studies in Historical Thought and Historiography in Republican Rome and the co-editor of a number of volumes, including Priests and State in the Roman World and The Roman Historical Tradition: Regal and Republican Rome.