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The student researching the politics and government of ancient Rome will find that although it has always been known as a republic, it was a different form of politics and government than what is now defined as a republic. The Republic of Rome came into existence with the overthrow of the monarchy, sometime near the end of the sixth century B.C. According to Wiseman (1998), modern historians know this from the ancient texts of Livy, Dionysius, Plutarch, and others (pp. 19). What the student will want to make note of is the fact that, according to Wiseman, all of those ancient writers, used a: ... historical tradition that can be traced back as far as the second half of the third century B.C., when the Roman literary genres of historical drama, historical epic, and prose historiography began (pp. 19).
What this should tell the student is that, centuries after the fact, writers were telling the history of the republic in dramatic or literary form which has, understandably, colored modern understanding of the early days of the republic....