Abstract

A New History of Rome

This article presents information on the book "The Roman Republic," by W.E. Heitland. Heitland has given only the first half of a history of Rome, Italy. But people are filled with dismay at the outset, and with wonder as to what sort or historical company Heitland has been keeping, when they find him affirming, in flat contradiction to international opinion often expressed, that a new, and at the same time sound, reconstruction of Roman history is neither desirable nor possible. The conception of historian Theodor Mommsen about the Roman history, as modified and expanded, not in the collegiate teaching of England, but by the skilled work of the last generation of historical investigators the world over, is the only old-fashioned view that deserves restatement at the present time.