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Overview: First in an exciting series, charting Romes bloody road to empireRecounts the desperate struggles for survival of the young Roman republicDescribes how and why Roman Armies eventually beat their Etruscan, Samnite, Celtic and other neighbours to dominate all of ItalyDiscover how the Roman legion fared in its first battles against Hellenistic pike phalanxes and war elephants.For who is so worthless or indolent as not to wish to know by what means...the Romans have succeeded in subjecting nearly the whole inhabited world to their sole government- a thing unique in history?

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Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank the Cowan family, Dr Duncan B. Campbell, Prof. Lawrence Keppie, Thomas McGrory, Philip Sidnell, Graham Sumner, Dr Jean MacIntosh Turfa and Dr Krista M. Ubbels for their assistance.

Maps 3 and 6 after E. T. Salmon, Samnium and the Samnites (1967).

Translations from the ancient sources are adapted from the Loeb Classical Library.

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The principal source, up to 292 BC, is Livy, books I X, and must be read in conjunction with the commentaries of Ogilvie (1965) and Oakley (1997 2005). For the supplementary ancient literary sources (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Diodorus Siculus, Plutarch, Strabo, Appian, Dio, Zonaras, Pliny the Elder, Polybius, Florus, Frontinus, Valerius Maximus, et cetera) and epigraphic materials, consult Broughton (1951) and Degrassi (1947, 1957 1963), and see Oakley (1997 2005) for critical discussion. For sources specifically relating to the Roman army of the early and mid-Republican periods, see Sage (2008).

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