Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Livy, Rex Sacrorum, Amulius

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Robert Stanley Brown

Document Summary

Not turning to italy, but the city of rome. Sense of culture of one city dominating the world romanising the world. Ongoing tensions between roman cultures and values and local cultures and values is ongoing. Later ancient historians: romans writing about their own history especially from the republican period. Livy"s (titus livius) ab urbe condita libri ( books from the foundation of the city") chronological history of rome from tis imagined foundation date to the present. The early history of the city of rome (foundation date is traditionally set at. Archaeological evidence: many place-names in italy are non-indo-european. Orientalising is anything to the east of hat we"re talking about sense of shifting culture. Latial i (1000-875 bc: little evidence, a few burial urns, no habitation sites, all we can safely say is that people died here, so they probably lived here.