CLAS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Palatine Hill, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, Tiber
19 Oct 2018
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Geographically primed to emerge as a major center. Same experience that his happening across the mediterannean. Athens + sparta have antagonism with each other and similar things will happen in the. Romulus was the first king of rome. Livy is writing in the 1st century bce. Time was kept by the romans based on the founding of the city and then you move on. Livy"s history is called "from the founding of the city" Republic/representative system to an imperial system (where one person is in charge) Writing the mythic history at the exact moment where we see the transition to the imperial system. Myth of rome: very masculine society because they are a community of people kicked out of other communities. Romulus was part of a population to be. Romulus was part of a population to be one of the most social within italian context (shepherd) Livy admits that he doesn"t know what truly happened.
