CLST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Giovanni Paolo Panini, Capitoline Hill, Tullus Hostilius
28 Sep 2017
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Ancient rome, painting by giovanni paolo pannini: all ancient things of the world in one room, roman empire: asia, africa, europe--massive empire. The 7 hills, of which the most famous are the palatine, quirinal and the capitoline (rome was founded on the 7 hills): hope was the romans would get to india didn"t know about china or the americas. Italia italy roma tiber river (river through the centre main water supply); The forum is in the centre (a field used as a meeting place -latin (cid:498)to speak(cid:499)(cid:524) Capitoline hill lay between palatine and quirinal the government location. Wall surrounds rome when you cross the tiber river, you"re in a different country. Quirinal settlers were a related, but different ethnic group. Alba longa (settled by the people of lavinium and became the metropolis for a while), The romans were latin people: latium (lazio) the latins, umbria sabines, umbrinans (north and east of latium, samnium (north of rome, etruria (toscana, tuscany)
