Today's Class

Who Settled Rome?
Etruscans

• Came from the north-central part of the peninsula
• Metal workers, artists, architects
• Two foundation myths: Virgil's Aeneid (where Aeneas escapes from Troy), plus the story of Remus and Romulus

Greeks

• Had many colonies around the Mediterranean Sea
• Romans borrowed ideas from them, such as:
• Religious beliefs
• Alphabet
• Much of their art
• Military techniques and weaponry

First - Latins

• Descendents 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
• And... built on seven hills (esp. Palatine)

... They Drained a Swamp ...

• Many streams flowed in the Tiber River
• Was a marshy area 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

Now Tarquin's Kinda Proud, but He Got a Little Loud

• Lucius Tarquinias Superbus
• The seventh and FINAL king of Rome
• Known as Tarquin the Proud (sometimes referred to as Tarquin the Arrogant)
• A true tyrant, in the old and modern sense of the world