CC 302: Introduction to Ancient Rome (Unique # 30270)

August 31: Early Rome

I: Lingua Latina

• Salvete, Salve
• Quid agitis?, Quid agis? optime, bene, satis bene, male
• Romam a principio reges habuerunt (Tacitus)

II. Business
(course homepage: http://www.utexas.edu/courses/romanciv/)

III. The Three Major Periods of Roman History

• Monarchy: 753 BCE - 509 BCE (according to Roman tradition)
• Republic: 509 BCE - 27 BCE
• Empire: 27 BCE - 476 CE

IV. Major influences on Early Rome

• Etruscans
• Greeks

V. The Monarchy according to Roman tradition (Livy): Seven Kings, last driven out in 509 BCE

VI. What archaeology tells us about early Rome

VII. Important features of early Roman society

• family: the importance of the paterfamilias
• religion: pax deorum
• government: "mixed constitution" (Polybius)

VIII. Two Important Early Developments in the Early Republic

• The Struggle of the Orders: patricians and plebeians
• The Twelve Tables (decemviri, 451-450)

Images to Accompany Discussion 2

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