CLA 2103 Lecture 5: CLA 2103 - Rome in the Iron Age

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 2103
• Professor: Antonia Holden

Document Summary

Cla 2103 rome in the iron age. 753 509/500 bce regal period (included late iron age, orientalizing & archaic periods: regal period: period during which rome was ruled by kings, 7 kings ruled rome. Historical regal period includes 3 archaeological periods with archaeological cultural labels: 2 types of evidence for iron age rome are: archaeological evidence, literary or writen evidence. According to literary tradiion, foundaion occurred in last phase of the iron age (753 bce) The problem: the archaeological evidence for the foundaion of rome doesn"t square with the tradiional foundaion: however, archaeological evidence for what rome (and italy) was like in late iron. Age is not consistent with descripion of events in literary tradiion. Rome was just a bunch of farmers and huts in the iron age; it didn"t become an urbanized society unil 650 bce: both types of evidence don"t match up.