1. From Alba Longa to the Punic Wars
Basic Roman History
From Alba Longa to the Punic Wars

2. Imperium Romanum

3. Our Story Begins
1184 B.C.
30 Generations
C. 783 B.C.

4. Rhea Silvia Numitor’s daughter Amulius’s decision Has twin boys
Punished for
violating vow

5. Romulus & Remus Babies in Basket Father Tiber A wolf and a woodpecker
Faustulus & Acca Larentia

6. The boys grow up… Amulius’s Shepherds Remus Captured!
Numitor’s hunch about Romulus
Amulius’s death
Restoring Numitor

7. Ab Urbe Condita Which hill? Augury & Vultures
“Don’t jump over my wall!”

8. The Sabine Women Problem with a bunch of dudes? Festival of treachery
Women given civil and property rights; mothers of free men

9. The War with the Sabines
Titus Tatius
The Perfidy of Tarpeia
Romulus stops
the rout
“Stop, in the name of love!”

10. The Senators & the ‘death’ of Romulus
100 Patres
A whirling nimbus
“Romulus is with the gods”
Quirinus

11. Our story so far… Why did Aeneas flee Troy?
How many years were there between the founding of Alba Longa & the foundation of Rome?
Why did Romulus and Remus have to get their milk from a wolf?
Why is the Tarpeian Rock called the Tarpeian Rock?

12. Numa Pompilius Interregnum Chosen to be king Refusal & augury Peace
Egeria
Religious Laws
The Fasti
Jan/Feb

13. Tullus Hostilius (673-642 B.C.)
Ferocitas
Religion? Pfft!
Treachery and barbaric death of Mettius Fufetius
Bad omens
Death by lightning

14. Horatii v. Curiatii 2 sets of triplets – Romans & Albans
Early setbacks
Cunning of
surviving Horatius
Horatia’s mistake
Horatius’s
acquittal

15. Ancus Marcius Grandson of Numa ½ Numa, ½ Hostilius
1st bridge across Tiber
Rituals of war & Rome’s 1st prison

16. Tarquinius Priscus Lucumo & Tanaquil leave Tarquinii
An eagle and a cap
Lucumo becomes king
Disinheritance of Ancus’ sons
Circus Maximus
Death by Ancus’s sons

17. Servius Tullius Priscus’s son-in-law The burning hair
Census, temples, expansion of the vote, new wall
All-around great king

18. The Rise of Tarquinius Superbus
Tullia m. Tarquinius
So does her sister
Treacherous switcheroo
Public power grab
A daughter’s love…
Reduces the Senate
Capitoline temple

19. Review Who were the 1st & Last Roman Kings?
Who had a set of triplets working for him?
Whose head caught on fire?
Why did Romulus kill Remus?
How did Tarquinius Superbus come to power?