NLE culture

7 Hills of Rome – Aventine, Esquiline, Caelian, Capitoline, Palatine, Quirinal, Viminal

- Flumen Tiberis (Tiber Riber) – river that flows through Rome

- Forum (Forum Romanum) – business center, located between the Capitoline and Palatine

- Via Sacra – “sacred road” runs through the Forum; only pedestrians allowed to use it

(except Vestal Virgins, who could ride carts)

- Via Appia – most important road in ancient Rome/Italy – the “Queen of Roads” (Regina

Viārum); most important Roman road originally extended from Rome to Capua and later

east to Brundisium.

- Mare Nostrum – “Our Sea,” what the Romans called the Mediterranean Sea

- Rome was located in a geographical area called Latium, giving us the term “Latin”

- The Alps were mountains that ran across the northern border of Italy – the “scalp”

- The Apenines were mountains that ran along the length of Italy – the “spine”

- Ostia – Rome’s first seaport, off the Tiber, on the western shore of Italy

- Brundisium – a seaport in the eastern shore of Italy, the endpoint of the Via Appia

Countries [Germania (Germany), Hispania (Spain), Brittania (Britain), Helvetia (Switzerland),

Gallia [(Gallia, (Gaul, now France), Graecia (Greece)];

Islands [Sicilia (Sicily), Corsica, Sardinia, Crete (below the southern tip of Greece)]

toga – ONLY male Roman citizens could wear this (toga praetexta for boys and

senators; toga virilis/pura for men; toga candida for candidates for office)

tunica – an undergarment/shirt worn by slaves, also worn by men underneath a

toga

stola – a dress for women

palla – a shawl for women, worn over the stola

soleae (sandals); caligae (boots); calceī (shoes)