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Thread on the #walls of #Rome TP Wiseman’s brand new paper on FirstView weighs in on the old debate of the age and shape of Rome’s early fortifications: cup.org/3cOTdGe
It’s been almost 10 years since I weighed in on this topic, suggesting our extant evidence (lit, arch, otherwise) was insufficient to resolve this debate. I still think at least that much is true, despite some very firm claims otherwise. jstor.org/stable/41725315
In the intervening decade, I’ve grown increasingly charitable to the idea of Rome as an extensive Mediterranean capital by the early 6th c. I STILL, however, think that the idea that the city had a full circuit at that date is an assumption, and a speculative one at that.
