CLA 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tiber, Plebs, Sestertius

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1101
• Professor: Richard Burgess

Document Summary

7 hills of rome: palentine, aventine, capitoline, quirinal, viminal, esquiline, caelian. These hills are split by a small river and a valley that leads to an island in the middle of. The runoff goes there and forms the island. This area 1200 bc 1000 bc was inhabited (iron age people), and the territory all around rome is called latium, and the people who lived there were the latins! This site was chosen for a number of reasons. (ex. The flat land1, being on a hill, etc) and so it was pretty defensible. They"re big on trading and traveling, so many go through the island (tiber island): all source of natural sources (timber, stone, metal deposits) and on the coast salt. Etruscans represent the people at the time who lived there. Greeks started to come along from the south of italy because of overpopulation (after 200 years = 36 greek cities).