CLA 1102 - test one

REGAL PERIOD

753-509 BC

REPUBLIC

509-31 BC

ROMAN EMPIRE

31 BC - AD 476

EARLIEST GRAVES IN THE FORUM ERA

1000 - 900 BC

TRADITIONAL DATE OF THE FOUNDING OF ROME

21 April 753 BC

STONE WALL BUILT AROUND BASE OF PALATINE

750-725 BC

ROME IS A LARGE AND COMPLEX CITY

550 BC

TARQUIN EXPELLED AND FIRST YEAR OF THE REPUBLIC

509 BC

CAPITOLINE TEMPLE (TO JUPITER, JUNO, MINERVA) DEDICATED

13 Sept 507

BATTLE OF LAKE REGILLUS

496 BC

SECESSION OF THE PLEBS

494 BC

TREATY BETWEEN ROME AND THE LATIN LEAGUE

493 BC

DECEMVIRI

451-450 BC

DEFEAT OF VEII

396 BC

CONQUEST OF ROME BY SENONES

390 BC (386)

SERVIAN WALL BUILT

378 BC

DEFEAT OF THE LATIN LEAGUE AT NAPLES

340 BC

DISSOLUTION OF THE LATIN LEAGUE

338 BC

FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD SAMNITE WARS

343 - 290 BC

peleus and thetis

got married, didnt invite discordia

achilles

son of peleus and thetis, trojan war hero

discordia

creates golden apple for the ‘most beautiful’ goddess bc she didn’t get invited to the wedding

jupiter

zeus, king of the gods

juno, minerva, and venus

all claim to be the most beautiful goddess and want the apple, try of bribe paris with different things

mercury

goes down to paris to make him decide who to give the apple to cause no one else can

paris, mt ida

shepard on mt ida, decides venus is most beatiful (who promised him helen as his wife)

helen, sparta

queen of sparta, gets kidnapped and brought to troy

menelaus and agamenon

kings of sparta and mycenae respectively, gather an army to siege troy (10 years), trojan horse plan, greeks destroy pretty much all of troy

aeneas and anchises

son and his father, escape troy but anchises dies on the way to italy or something like that

palladium

sacred statue of minerva that anchises had

ascanius / iulus

aeneas’ son, also survives trojan war

crueusa

aeneas’ wife (lost)

king latinus

king of latium, at war, aeneas helps him conquer the tribe hes at war with

latium

the territory where aeneas and his army land

lavinia

daughter of latinus, marries aeneas after he helps latinus (her hand in marriage in exchange for the help)

lavinium

city that aeneas founds and names after his new wife

alba longa

city that ascanius founds himself, 13 gens of his descendants rule it

numitor

first born twin son of prev king, good ruler (13th king)

amulius

second born twin son of prev king, evil and jealous, drive numator out so he can become king (14th king)

rhea silvia

numator’s daughter, amulius needs her to not have kids, forces her to become a vestal virgin, she and mars sleep together, she gets pregnant, says that it was mars, there are two twins again

romulus and remus

rhea silvia’s kids, amulius steals them to have them drowned

tiber

the river in which romulus and remus were supposed to be drowned, they were instead just left on the bank and a she wolf came a nursed them

faustulus

local farmer who finds the twins and decides to raise them (but they soon realize their parentage, put together an army, go find numator and kill amulius, reinstate numator as king)

palatine and aventine

the twins decide they don’t wanna wait to become kings, decide to start a new city where they were supposed to die, but they like opposite sides of the river (romulus like the palatine and remus likes the aventine)

augury

leave the decision to the gods! remus sees 6 vultures on the right side of the sky (lucky), romulus saw 12, cant decide which is better, so they both decide to found their own city

pomerium

scared boundary that you plow around a new city with two white oxen

fratricide

romulus has more people, they start leaving remus’ city, remus knows that if he breaks the pomerium he’ll break the scared-ness, the only way to restore the pomerium is to kill remus, so he does

seven hills

palatine, aventine, capitoline, quirinal, viminal, esquiline, caelian

latium

the province/area that rome is in

why is there a good place to found rome?

defensible (on a hill)

volcanic soil (fertile)

water (irrigation)

tiber (good transport and defense)

tiber island (crossroads for trade from north and south)

natural ressources in the area

curia

romulus (latin) and titus tatius (sabine)

numa pompilius (s)

tullus hostilius (l)

ancus marcius (s)

l. tarquinius priscus

servus tullius

l. tarquinius superbus

tarquinia

tullia the elder

tullia the younger

sextus tarquinius

lucretia and l. tarquinius collatinus

l. junius brutus

consul

res publica

capitoline temple

capitoline triad

jupiter, juno, minerva

veii

tarquinii

clusium

lars porsenna

horatius cocles

mucius scaevola

secession of the plebs

regillus

aequi and volsci

conubium

commericum

migratio

decemviri

appius claudius

virginia and virginius

senones

cisalpine gaul

transalpine gaul

river allia

m. manlius capitolinus

brennus and ‘vae victis’

servian wall

samnites / samnium

neapolis

dissolution of the latin league

civitas optimo iure

civitas sine suffragio

civitates foederatae