Titus
Livius—Livy--(59 BCE to 17 CE)
Ab Urbe
Condita [ From the Founding of the City] The
Early History of
142 books from beginnings of city from 753 BCE to 9 CE
From
Book One: Founding legends: Aeneas, Romulus & Remus; Brutus & Lucretia
Regal period (753-509 BCE) 7 kings
Overthrow of kings and foundation of Republic
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Wk 2: TARQUIN KINGS OF
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus
(Lucumo) Wife Tanaquil
-Etruscan/Corinthian
origins [from
--characterized by ambitio and wealth;
married to Tanaquil [Etruscan woman who understands in
augury]
-Expands Senate with lesser families (demagogue)
-Murdered by sons of former king Ancus Marcius
Servius Tullius (possible
slave origins) dead body efiled by his daughter Tullia
Census and organization of
military on the basis of property
Marries his daughters to the former king’s sons
-Killed by his son-in-law Tarquin and daughter Tullia,
parricide
(killing the father) , impiety
Quote from Livy:
. “To Tullia the thought of Tanaquil’s success
was torture… it was intolerable to feel that she herself should count for nothing
in the making, or unmaking of kings.”
Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (Tarquin the Proud)
– Son Sextus rapes Lucretia, leads Brutus to found Republic
– Final story of Livy’s Book 1
–
urbanization Rule
of Etruscan kings is a period of intense in
–
Servian wall (earliest wall after
– Cloaca Maxima (sewer, draining of the Forum)
– Paving of the Forum
– Circus Maximus
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