Rex is an account of the regal period of Rome written by podcasters and academics Peta Greenfield and Fiona Radford, famous for their podcast 'The Partial Historians'. This book concentrates on the regal period of Rome. It is a narrative history in an accessible and humorous style. While the book will focus on telling the stories of Rome's kings, it makes use of the scholarship on this early period and helps the general reader to dissect the events recorded in narrative and annalistic sources like Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Interweaving mythology, historical sources and archaeology to create a narrative of the period, it uses footnotes to indicate sources where appropriate and to guide the reader to further scholarship to allow readers to understand how this important and under-researched period of Roman history has been retold.