CLASSICS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Capitoline Hill, Palatine Hill, Septimontium
13 May 2016
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This is the heart of the roman empire. Septimontium = 7 hills: capitoline hill, roman forum (a valley in between two of the hills. I t was originally a cemetery), palatine hill campus martius (field of mars) First accounts of roman history: 3rd-2nd c. bc. Historians = annalists = year by year account. Titus livius (livy) and p. vergilius maro (vergil) Livy, ab urbe condita (from the foundation of rome): c. 25 bc, livy wrote c. 700 years after foundation and earliest events at rome. Aeneas: trojan warrior, fled the sack of troy with penates (household gods) Wife is creusa (left behind at troy), son is ascanius (also known as lulus) Rome"s foundation mythology: so different and huge a task to found the nation of rome. Latinus, a local king, father of lavinia. From this town is where we get romulus and remus. She wolf nursing romulus and remus (5th c. bc & 15th c. ad)
