CLAS 1000 Lecture 17: - October 22 - The Creation of an Empire
8 Oct 2015
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Lecture 17 - october 22, 2014 roman creation. Palatine vs aventine: they look to the heavens for answers to which of the two hills to use as a centre for rome. Very quickly the early romans realized they were short on a very important resource: women. Rome invited a neighbouring tribe, and said bring all of your unmarried women to a festival, to show them a good time. When the party reached its climax, the romans gave the signal and seized all of the sabine women. This event of abduction of the women is called the rape of. The sabines return armed under the leadership of titius tatius (lol). They siege the city, and it is working. But then the sabine women, who are their captives, then step between their fathers and brothers and their captors. This shows the romans skill at integrating captured peoples into the roman civilization. This story is the key ingredient in hannibal"s defeat.
