The Building Of Rome, Livy

Question 0

Numitor

Answer 0

The eldest of the brothers
But Amulius forced him out
Amulius became king

Question 1

The kings up to Amulius and Numitor

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Amulius

Answer 2

Forced his elder brother out and became king

Murdered Amulius’s sons and mad his daughter Rea Silvia a Vestle virgin

Question 3

Rhea silva

Answer 3

Daughter of Numitor
Was raped
Gave birth to twins: Romulus and Remus
Claimed their father was Mars

Question 4

Why Livy believes Rhea Silvia was raped

Answer 4

He believes the fates intervened because Rome had to be founded
“The mightiest empire under heaven”

Question 5

What happened to Rhea Silvia after she gave brith

Answer 5

She was thrown into prison

Question 6

What happened to Romulus and Remus after their birth

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Story of the she wolf

Answer 7

A she wolf found the children by the Ruminal fig tree

She treated them and fed them with her milk

Question 8

Story of the shepherd

Answer 8

He found the children and took them to his wife laurentia

It is thoughts he was a prostitute named “she wolf”

Question 9

Romulus, Remus and the gang

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Romulus and Remus building a city

Answer 10

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”

Question 11

Romulus’s temple

Answer 11

Was on the Palentine hill

Question 12

Remus’s temple

Answer 12

Was on the Aventine hill

Question 13

Remus’s omens

Answer 13

Six vultures

Got the omen First

Question 14

Romulus’s omens

Answer 14

Twelve vultures

Got the omens first

Question 15

The brothers fight

Answer 15

Remus got the omens first but Romulus got more vultures
A fight broke out

Remus was killed

Question 16

The brothers building walls

Answer 16

Remus mocked Romulus by jumping over his walls
Romulus killed him
“The same will happen to anyone else who jumps over my walls”

Question 17

Evander and Hercules

Answer 17

Evader told Hercules that he would be worshiped as a god

Evader set up an alter that Hercules built

Question 18

The Hercules worship

Answer 18

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

Question 19

The problem of Rome

Answer 19

Didn’t have enough women

Question 20

Romulus’s plan to get women

Answer 20

Invited neighbours to come and celebrate a festival for Neptune
The Romans scattered and grabbed the unmarked women
The families left very sad

Question 21

Caeninenses attack

Answer 21

They were defeated

Romulus built the first temple in Rome to offer the Caenineses’s armour to Jupiter

Question 22

How the Sabines got into Rome

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Spurius Tarpeius’s daughter’s death (shields)

Answer 23

The Sabines wore bracelets on their left arms but they heaped their shields on her instead as she was a traitor

Question 24

Spurius Tarpeius’s daughter’s death (swords)

Answer 24

They carried their weapons in their left hand
Believing she was tricking them to give her their swords
they killed her

Question 25

The Sabines attack on Rome

Answer 25

A roman leader called Hostillus was killed
The Romans started to flee
Romulus said that Jupiter commanded them to stay and fight

Question 26

How the battle ended

Answer 26

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

Question 27

The outcome of the war

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Antemnates attack

Answer 28

Where defeated

Their town was taken

Question 29

Crustimini attack

Answer 29

Also defeated