Early Rome

I: Lingua Latina

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

Optional Discussion Sections (Don Carlo Goduto)

II. The Three Major Periods of Roman History

(You are responsible for all dates marked in bold, as well as for relative chronology of all events)

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

III. Some geography

IV. The Monarchy according to Roman tradition (Vergil and Livy):

• ca. 1180 BCE: Aeneas comes from Troy and joins Trojans to Latins
• Seven Kings

1. Romulus
2. Numa
3. Tullius Hostilius
4. Ancus Marcius
5. Tarquinius Priscus 
6. Servius Tullius
7. Tarquinius Superbus

V. What archaeology tells us about early Rome

VI. Important features of early Roman society

• the city-state
• the familia: the importance of the paterfamilias 
• the gens (note names)
• curiae, tribes and centuries
• patrons and clients
• religion: pax deorum