This account begins in 1400 BC with the primitive villages of the Italic tribes. The scene was transformed by the arrival of the Greeks and Etruscans who had Rome and Central Italy under their cultural spell by 600 BC.

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• Roman Sculpture (Yale Publications in the History of Art)
• Greek Architecture, Fifth Edition (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art)
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• The Archaeology of Early Rome and Latium