Transcript Basic Roman History (1)

Basic Roman History
From Alba Longa to the Punic
Wars
Imperium Romanum
Our Story Begins
1184 B.C.
30 Generations
C. 783 B.C.
Rhea Silvia
Numitor’s daughter
Amulius’s decision
Has twin boys
Punished for
violating vow
Romulus & Remus
• Babies in Basket
• Father Tiber
• A wolf and a
woodpecker
• Faustulus & Acca
Larentia
The boys grow up…
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Amulius’s Shepherds
Remus Captured!
Numitor’s hunch about Romulus
Amulius’s death
Restoring Numitor
Ab Urbe Condita
Which hill?
Augury & Vultures
“Don’t jump over my
wall!”
The Sabine Women
• Problem with a
bunch of dudes?
• Festival of
treachery
• Women given civil
and property rights;
mothers of free
men
The War with the Sabines
Titus Tatius
The Perfidy of
Tarpeia
Romulus stops
the rout
“Stop, in the name
of love!”
The Senators & the ‘death’ of
Romulus
• 100 Patres
• A whirling nimbus
• “Romulus is with the gods”
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Quirinus
Our story so far…
Why did Aeneas flee Troy?
How many years were there between
the founding of Alba Longa & the
foundation of Rome?
Why did Romulus and Remus have to
get their milk from a wolf?
Why is the Tarpeian Rock called the
Tarpeian Rock?
Numa Pompilius
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Interregnum
Chosen to be king
Refusal & augury
Peace
Egeria
Religious Laws
The Fasti
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Jan/Feb
Tullus Hostilius (673-642 B.C.)
Ferocitas
Religion? Pfft!
Treachery and
barbaric death of
Mettius Fufetius
Bad omens
Death by lightning
Horatii v. Curiatii
2 sets of triplets – Romans & Albans
Early setbacks
Cunning of
surviving Horatius
Horatia’s mistake
Horatius’s
acquittal
Ancus Marcius
Grandson of Numa
½ Numa, ½
Hostilius
1st bridge across
Tiber
Rituals of war &
Rome’s 1st prison
Tarquinius Priscus
Lucumo & Tanaquil
leave Tarquinii
An eagle and a cap
Lucumo becomes
king
Disinheritance of
Ancus’ sons
Circus Maximus
Death by Ancus’s
sons
Servius Tullius
Priscus’s son-inlaw
The burning hair
Census, temples,
expansion of the
vote, new wall
All-around great
king
The Rise of Tarquinius Superbus
Tullia m.
Tarquinius
So does her sister
Treacherous
switcheroo
Public power grab
A daughter’s
love…
Reduces the
Senate
Capitoline temple
Review
Who were the 1st & Last Roman Kings?
Who had a set of triplets working for
him?
Whose head caught on fire?
Why did Romulus kill Remus?
How did Tarquinius Superbus come to
power?