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Special Episode – The Twelve Tables
The Twelve Tables are a landmark moment of early Republican Roman history. The lex duodecim tabularum see the codification of Rome’s laws!
The name ‘The Twelve Tables’ is derived from the idea that these laws were inscribed on to twelve oak tablets. We happen to know quite a lot about the content of the tables, even though they have not survived in epigraphic form. The evidence for the tables comes from extant literature.
Special Episode – The Twelve Tables
The main literary sources that we’re reading at the moment, Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, place the…
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