Political Power in Mid-Republican Rome: Curia Or Comitium?

@article{Millar1989PoliticalPI,  title={Political Power in Mid-Republican Rome: Curia Or Comitium?},  author={F. G. B. Millar},  journal={Journal of Roman Studies},  year={1989},  volume={79},  pages={138 - 150},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:156029173}}
The earlier history of Rome presents us with a very familiar, inescapable and apparently insoluble paradox. On the one hand the historiography of Rome begins only in the late third century, with Fabius Pictor's History in Greek and (not to be neglected) Naevius' Bellum Punicum in Latin. As for the First Punic War itself, Naevius had been born early enough to stipendia facere in it. But the narration of it could, on the other hand, be set in the framework of the Foundation and of the earliest… 

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