HIST 205 Lecture 14: HIST 205 Lecture 14

• School: McGill University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 205
• Professor: Alexander Mc Auley

Document Summary

Roman origins: roman (& greek) historical tradition, kings and etruscan rome, birth of the republic, social struggles in archaic rome, roman (& greek) historical tradition. Livy (titus livius) (c. 60 bc - 17 ad) Romans don"t start writing their own histories till ~200 bc. Best source for early roman histories is livy. Hes writing hundreds of years later, and is not a careful historian (doesn"t take into all the small details) He bases his writing off earlier works. There seem to be bronze plaques that exist in rome that talk about early history, but we don"t know how the early writers got info about this early period. Polybius ~150 bc was a hostage in rome (under house arrest) and gives tidbits about the early roman period. Plutarch talks about historical figures: kings & etruscan rome. Founded by romulus (a possible descendant of the gods) Washes up on the shores of palentine, raised by wolves, and founds rome!