Transcript latin 2 history final

Overview of Roman History
1184, B.C.: Trojan War
TW cont.
TW cont
Create family tree: Aeneas to Romulus
Descendants of Aeneas
Legend of Romulus up to …
 Tell story
Founding of Rome
 753 B.C.
Romulus
 First King
Numa Pompilius
 Second King
Tullus Hostilius
 Third king
 Tullus was the grandson of Hostius
Hostilius who was a Roman hero and
served under Romulus.
 Tullus Hostilius came to power in 673
BC.
Ancus Marcius
 Fourth King
Tarquinius Priscus
 Fifth King
Servius Tullius
 Sixth King
Tarquinius Superbus
 Seventh King
 Superbus means 'the haughty one'
 descendant from an Etruscan family
 son of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus
 married to Tullia, the daughter of Servius
Tullius
 Killed tullias father the become king
 535-510
 No election
 repealed the recent reforms in the
constitution
 Waged wars with the Latins and
Etruscans
 Capitoline Temple (Jupiter Capitolinus)
 Cloaca Maxima, the sewerage system
that discharged into the Tiber
 less politically astute
 irritated the people by the burdens he
placed upon them
 behaved like an autocrat
Rise of the Republic
 10 B.C.
First Consuls
Cursus Honorem
 2 consuls: Co-presidents
Citizen Army
Expantion of Rome
Heroes of the Roman Republic
 Horatius Cocles
 Mucius Scaevola
 Cloelia
 Lucius Quinctus Cincinnatus
Horatius Cocles
 Guarded the bridge to Rome
 The Etruscans were attacking
 Had his comrads destroy the bridge
behind him
 Held of the Etruscans untill his men had
destroyed the bridge behind him
 After a quick prayer to the god of the
river, he jumped into the river and swam
to safety
Gaius Mucius Scaevola
 Swore to assassinate the Etruscan King
 Snuck into the camp on a day when the soldiers were
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being paid
Did not know which was the king and who was the
scribe
Guessed and killed the man who was the kings scribe
The king had him arrested and threatended to burn
him
To prove to Porsenna the he would not yield, he stuck
his hand in the fire on the alter
He was allowed to leave the camp alive because he
had shown no pain while his hand burned
He arrived back at Rome a hero and was nicknamed
‘Lefty’ because he had destroyed his right in the fire.
Cloelia
 Porsonna offered to withdraw his troops in
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exchange for Roman hostages
Cloelia, along with the oother girls, was
exchanged for Roman freedom
When she saw the camp was near the Tiber
river, she led a few other girls and they swam
across through a shower of spears
Porsonna demanded the return of the girl, and
sent her and her choice of the other hostages
home again
Honored her by doing this and erecting a statue
of a girl on a horse in the Forum in her honor
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
 The entire Roman army and their commander was surrounded
 As a desperate measure, the counsel elected Cincinnatus as
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dictator
The met and gave him this news after finding him plowing in a
field
He sent his wife for his toga while he wiped off the dust and
sweat
As soon as he put on his toga, he was named dictator and
whisked off to Rome
He ordered all the men of military age to carry five days of food
and 12 poles to build a palisade around the Etruscans
The palisade was built and the enemy surrendered, having
nowhere to go.
Within days of Romes victor, he resigned and went back to his
home