CLCV 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Augury, Annales Maximi, Palatine Hill
21 Mar 2016
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Lecture 1: early rome & the roman republic. Bronze age (3000-900 bce: composed of the villanova & latial cultures, not much info really known about these cultures, all the info we know about them are from artefacts/urns, there isn"t really much settlement evidence. Iron age / archaic period (9th - 5th century bce: greek colonization occurs in southern italy, in 700-750 bce, cumae-nestor"s cup is found, is one of the earliest greek inscriptions, alludes to homer"s relationship with aphrodite. Rome sits on the border between the regions of etruria and. Descent into mytho-history: understood from at least the 3rd century bce, has been written by authors: livy, dionysius of. Romulus can populate his city: a truce occurs sabine king and romulus get along . King : kept in the main square of the city and venerated, the hut of romulus on the modern-day palatine hill.
