For more on this, once again, I've written about 45,000 words on this topic in this blog series: acoup.blog/2021/06/11/c... It comes complete with bibliography and ancient citations. Because as a historian, I rate ancient evidence more highly than modern bullshit ideology. /end

Collections: The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans? Part I: Beginnings and Legends

Who were the Romans? How did they understand themselves as a people and ‘Roman’ as an identity? And what were the implications of that understanding – and perhaps more importantly…