 Complete the following phrase:  The traditional version of Roman history, which has come down to us principally through Livy 64 or 59 BC  AD 12 or 17, Plutarch 46120, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus  60 BC  after 7 BC, recounts that a series of seven kings ruled the settlement in Romes first centuries. The traditional chronology, as codified by Varro 116 BC  27 BC and Fabius Pictor c. 270  c. 200 BC, allows 243 years for their combined reigns, an average of almost 35 years. Since the work of Barthold Georg Niebuhr, modern scholarship has generally discounted this schema. The Gauls destroyed many of Romes historical records when they sacked the city after the 