CLA 1102 Lecture 2: Class 2

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1102
• Professor: Richard Burgess

Document Summary

The judgement of paris painting: paris has a floppy hat, golden apple, three naked women. Latium latin word for broad and flat (black and white map: red low-level, blue high-level. At the point that rome is founded, there is an island: as you come in from the see, that island offers the first area where people can cross to rome. Etruscans north; heavily influenced in their culture by the greeks. Greeks south (4) natural resources timber for building, fuel; stone for building; metal deposits (money to be made from mining); salt, originally one of the most important things in roman society. First settlement in the area graves 1000-900 bc. Evidence in increasing population : spreading to the capitoline hill, start burying people on the esquiline hill. The regal period period with kings: 700 bc rome controls 7 km all around rome (150 km/sq) Shows that rome is coming together and is a unifying: 550 bc .