time to resume serious reading: continuation of 'the beginnings of rome' by t.j. cornell

It's the holiday season, I know, I know!

However, this is a reminder that we resume reading  The Beginnings of Rome: Italy From the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (Circa 1,000 to 264 B.C.) by T.J. Cornell on January 7, continue on January 21 and finish on February 4).

We'll start on the 7th with Chapters 11 and 12:

11  THE TWELVE TABLES

1. The Decemvirate
2. The Valerio-Horatian Laws
3. The nature of the code
4. The laws: slavery, debt and nexum
5. The laws: family and property
6. The laws: economic implications
7. The laws: social distinctions

12  WARS AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS, 509-345 BC

1. Rome and the Latin League
2. The foedus Cassianum and its consequences
3. Early Latin colonies
4. The incursions of the Sabines, Aequi and Volsci
5. The conflict between Rome and Veii
6. The Gallic catastrophe
7. The Roman recovery
8. The beginnings of Roman expansion

Serious and dense stuff!