Table of Contents

Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. The problem; 2. Three, thirty and three hundred; 3. Varro's squared colony; 4. Other systems; 5. What was a curia?; 6. Curial origins and religion; 7. Roman curias and the Latin festival; 8. Communion and community; 9. The curiate constitution; 10. A summary of the curiate constitution; Appendices; Maps; Index.

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An examination of the development of archaic Rome which successfully united disparate cultures and integrated them into political life.