CLAS 1220 Midterm: CLAS 1220 Notes
8 Jan 2019
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Seven hills, important: capitoline (gods live), palatine and aventine (people live) Forum romanum (congregation of people who live on different hills: business, civic functions. Comitium (where senate interacts with common folk eg. trial) House of vestal virgins (stop motion in senate because of religious reasons eg. god disapproves) Vesta (symbol of fire in a house, rome lives as long as fire burns) Where the gods live, temples built eg. temple of jupiter optimus maximus. Roma quadrata: demarcated by pomerium -> must be kept sacred. Story of romulus and remus brothers (romulus killed remus for trespassing wall?) Change in the organization of military action -> organized under the state. How the romans made sense of all this: troy and aeneas, ascanius and kings in alba longa, procas 2 sons numitor (grandfather of romulus and remus) and amulius. Amulius deposes numitor and kills male children and exiles numitor.
