Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 February 2021
According to the literary tradition, the early Roman republic seems to have been characterised by a severe economic and social crisis. Foreign policy reveals a dramatic change in local geopolitics, in that the Roman hegemony in central Tyrrhenian Italy in the early decades of the republic appears to have been challenged by a series of attacks against the city, mainly by Sabinians, Volscians and the Etruscans of Veii, which probably led to the loss of control of some border regions.
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