Excerpt from The Ancient World From the Earliest Times to 800 A. D, Vol. 2: Rome and the West A land of mingled races Leading peoples: Italians, Greeks, Gauls, Etruscans Fragments of forgotten peoples (ligurians, etc.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.