1. From Alba Longa to Tarquinius Superbus
Basic Roman History
From Alba Longa to Tarquinius Superbus

2. Imperium Romanum

3. The Problem With Records
390 BC
Rome is sacked
Records are burned
History before this is reimagined after the fact – more legend/myth
This is how Romans want to be seen

4. Our Story Begins
1184 B.C.
C. 783 B.C.
Alba Longa
Numitor & Amulius

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

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

7. The boys grow up… Amulius’s Shepherds Remus Captured!
Faustulus reveals the truth
Numitor’s hunch about Remus
Amulius’s death
Restoring Numitor

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

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

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

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

12. 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?

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

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

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

16. Ancus Marcius Not very important for us Builds a lot!
1st bridge across Tiber
Rome’s 1st prison

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

18. Servius Tullius Priscus’s son-in-law The burning hair
Census, temples, coins, bigger city, new wall
Expansion of the vote
All-around great king

19. 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