CLA 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lex Canuleia, Imperium, Lex Hortensia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 2103
• Professor: Antonia Holden

Document Summary

Cla 2103 birth of republic & struggle of orders. The atermath of the expulsion of tarquinius superbus was an acion-packed melodrama: superbus unsuccessfully tried to ight his way back to the throne and re-take control of rome. For the next 10 years, romans fought wars against tarquinius superbus" allies, most notably. Lars porsena: at this ime, clusium was a powerful etruscan city. They were ashamed at the thought of such unequal odds: finally, they hurled their spears against horaius. Despite this setback, lars porsena resumed siege operaions (he garrisoned the janiculum. Tiber, which later became known as the mucia prata (mucian meadows) Another story in livy, about war between rome and clusium, concerns roman hostages taken by porsena as part of the treaty ater the resoluion of the war between rome and. Porsena of clusium: cloelia, one of the hostages, led from the etruscan camp and led other roman maiden hostages back to safety.