THINKING ABOUT KINGS
THINKING ABOUT KINGS
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关于国王的思考
DOI：
10.1111/j.2041-5370.2011.00022.x
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
0.1
通讯作者：
SMITH C
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作者：
SMITH C
关于罗马国王的大量著作从古代幸存下来，但大多数现代学者认为它们没有历史价值。然而，在法律的、人类学和考古学的记载中，人们已经或明或暗地地在这些证据的基础上建立了很多东西;人们如何在这一时期的考古学和文学证据之间进行解读，仍然是一个困难的方法论问题。本文试图揭示我们可以合法和适当地说罗马王权，调查过去世纪左右的一些主要解释趋势，并提出一个更复杂的模型，以产生关于一种制度和一种现象的传统，这种制度和现象可能在现实中比罗马人自己描述的更不稳定。
A very large amount of writing about the Roman kings survives from antiquity but the majority of it is deemed by most modern scholars to be of no historical value. Yet much has been built on this evidence, implicitly or explicitly, in legal, anthropological and archaeological accounts; and the way in which one may read between archaeology and literary evidence for this period remains a difficult methodological problem. This paper seeks to uncover what we may legitimately and appropriately say about Roman kingship, to investigate some of the major interpretative trends of the past century or so, and to propose a more complex model of the generation of traditions about an institution and a phenomenon which may in reality have been far more fluid and unstable than the Romans themselves portrayed it.