CLA 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hectare, Numa Pompilius, Titus Tatius

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

Document Summary

Latium is flat land surrounding rome, in habited by the latini (where latin comes from) Salt pans (for drying out and collecting salt: timber for building an fuel, metal deposits (silver, tin, lead) Stone for building: rome was influenced very heavily by the etruscans and the greeks to the south, thus rome became a combination of 3 cultures, dwellings spread from the palatine to the capitoline. Gall, africa: with money cam military conquest, and they began to seize land from others and other colonies. It was noisy, smelly, and disgusting (many diseases, crowds, traffic, crime) Its not until london in the 1800"s that another city became as populated as rome. If there were 2 daughters, one would be ____ the elder, and the other is _____ the younger. If they had more than 2 they would just start to number them off: when they are single they say ____ daughter of _____, when married it is ____ wife of.