The Building Of Rome, Livy Flashcards
Numitor
The eldest of the brothers
But Amulius forced him out
Amulius became king
The kings up to Amulius and Numitor
Ascanius Silvius (born in the forest) Aeneas Silvius Latinus Silvius (created other settlements) Alba, Atys, Capys, Capetus (Silvius) Tiberinus Silvius (drowned, the river Albula was named the Tiber) Agrippa Romulus Silvius (struck by lightening) Aventinus Procas Numitor and Amulius
Amulius
Forced his elder brother out and became king
Murdered Amulius’s sons and mad his daughter Rea Silvia a Vestle virgin
Rhea silva
Daughter of Numitor
Was raped
Gave birth to twins: Romulus and Remus
Claimed their father was Mars
Why Livy believes Rhea Silvia was raped
He believes the fates intervened because Rome had to be founded
“The mightiest empire under heaven”
What happened to Rhea Silvia after she gave brith
She was thrown into prison
What happened to Romulus and Remus after their birth
Ordered to be drowned in the river Tiber
The Tiber was flooded
The boys were left by the flooded water beneath the Ruminal fig tree
Story of the she wolf
A she wolf found the children by the Ruminal fig tree
She treated them and fed them with her milk
Story of the shepherd
He found the children and took them to his wife laurentia
It is thoughts he was a prostitute named “she wolf”
Romulus, Remus and the gang
The two brothers started a gang of shepherds (it got bigger every day)
A festival was held on the Palantine hill (the Luperentia)
The gang were attacked by robbers
Remus was captured and brought before Amulius
They killed Amulius
Romulus and Remus building a city
Numitor acknowledged them as his sons
They went to build a city
Chose to look for omens to decide who would be the leader
“The old wickedness-the desire to be king- came between the twins”
Romulus’s temple
Was on the Palentine hill
Remus’s temple
Was on the Aventine hill
Remus’s omens
Six vultures
Got the omen First
Romulus’s omens
Twelve vultures
Got the omens first
The brothers fight
Remus got the omens first but Romulus got more vultures
A fight broke out
Remus was killed
The brothers building walls
Remus mocked Romulus by jumping over his walls
Romulus killed him
“The same will happen to anyone else who jumps over my walls”
Evander and Hercules
Evader told Hercules that he would be worshiped as a god
Evader set up an alter that Hercules built
The Hercules worship
The two most important families- Potitii and the Pinarii
Potitii arrived at the beginning of the sacrifice so got the entrails
The Pinarii got the rest
This custom continued
Potitii became the priests of the cult
Romulus adopted this cult
The problem of Rome
Didn’t have enough women
Romulus’s plan to get women
Invited neighbours to come and celebrate a festival for Neptune
The Romans scattered and grabbed the unmarked women
The families left very sad
Caeninenses attack
They were defeated
Romulus built the first temple in Rome to offer the Caenineses’s armour to Jupiter
How the Sabines got into Rome
Spurius Tarpeius was in charge of the Roman citadel
His virgin daughter went outside of the walls to get water
Tatius the leader bribed her with gold to get them into the citadel
Spurius Tarpeius’s daughter’s death (shields)
The Sabines wore bracelets on their left arms but they heaped their shields on her instead as she was a traitor
Spurius Tarpeius’s daughter’s death (swords)
They carried their weapons in their left hand
Believing she was tricking them to give her their swords
they killed her
The Sabines attack on Rome
A roman leader called Hostillus was killed
The Romans started to flee
Romulus said that Jupiter commanded them to stay and fight
How the battle ended
The women threw themselves into the fray
The battle stopped
The women said that they should be killed instead as they were the cause of the war
The outcome of the war
The power was shared
Romulus divided the population into 30 groups -the curie
3 groups of 100 knights Re recruited -Ramnenses, Titenses, Luceres (the first two named after Romulus and Titus)
Joint rule between the two kings
Antemnates attack
Where defeated
Their town was taken
Crustimini attack
Also defeated
