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Introduction

Among our chief sources of information on the earliest period of Rome's history are the works of Greek and Roman historians, such as Livy of Padua, Plutarch and Dionysius of Halicarnassus.

These writers drew their information from earlier sources - the records of the annalists of the third and second centuries BC. But, as has been noted earlier, due to the lack of documentary evidence from the period preceding the fourth century BC, the annalists could only record what was preserved in an oral tradition much coloured by myths and legends. Moreover, the later historians tended to construe events that occurred in the remote past in the light of the social conditions and beliefs of their own age. For that reason their accounts of Rome's early history are usually assessed by modem scholars in the light of information supplied by other disciplines, such as scientific archaeology, comparative philology and linguistics.

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Source: Mousourakis George. The Historical and Institutional Context of Roman Law. Routledge,2003. — 480 p.. 2003

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