Notes on Rome:
Etruscans
- Came from the north-central part of the peninsula
- Metalworkers, artist, architects
- Two foundation myths: Virgil's Aeneid (where Aeneas escapes from Troy), plus the story of Remus and Romulus
Greeks
- They had many colonies around the Mediterranean Sea
- Romans borrowed ideas from the such as:
- Religious beliefs
- Alphabet
- Much of their art
- Military techniques and weaponry
Latins
- First to settle in Rome
- Descendants of Indo-Europeans
- Settled on the banks of the Tiber
- Situated so trading ships - but not war fleets - could navigate as far as Rome, but no further
- A commercial port, but not susceptible to attack
- Built on seven hills (esp. Palatine)
- Remus wanted Aventine
- Romulus wanted Palatine
Swamp
- Many streams flowed into the Tiber
- There was a marshy are called the Forum, between Palatine and Capitoline Hills
- Tarquin the Proud's grandfather built the Cloaca Maxima (largest ancient drain), which channeled water into the Tiber
Tarquin the Proud
- Lucius Tarquinias Superbus
- The seventh and final king of Rome
- Known as Tarquin the Proud
- A true tyrant, in the old and modern sense of the word
- Tarquin seized power like an old school tyrant
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