CLST 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Attius Tullius, Lars Porsena, Lucius Tarquinius Priscus
14 Oct 2013
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Voting was democratic: ballots thrown in urns later. Consuls called monarchic: had powers of king. Society was oligarchic: ruling class patricians. Chinsi, later clusium: home of lars porsena. Most famous person to ever come from the city. Quinctius cincinatus: farmer chosen as dictator. Gives up dictatorship: returns to being farmer. Temple of vesta: circular style of temple, here where the vestal virgins tended to the father, one senior vestal virgin. Temple of capitoline jupiter: construction began under tarquinius priscus, triad is an etruscan idea. Temple of castor and pollux: greek gods brought into roman pantheon. First to be appropriated along with apollo and hercules. Temple of saturn: treasury from juno moneta eventually transferred there, saturnos, roman kronos. 509: expulsion of tarquins, time of great tumult, tyrant in athens, revolutionary period in rome. Gauls sack rome: city rebuilt by camillus, rome very ramshackled, built wall. Plutarch: moral philosopher, biographies of greeks and romans. Greek word for writing on a life.
