Video: The Rise of Rome

The Height of Classical Rome
1. The Colliseum
  1. 60k people at one time
2. Real Rome
  1. Smelly
  2. Dirty
  3. Crowded
3. Greatest Roman Achievement
  1. Engineering
  2. Harvesting of Water through Aquaducts
Etruscan Women
1. The Etruscan women shocked the ancient world because they laid with their men while eating
2. Sexuality in Etruscan society was very open.
3. Women in Etruscan society had almost equality.
Livy
1. Greatest Roman Historian
2. What was his motivation for writing the history?
  1. The Augustine age was decadent and immoral
  2. He wanted to find the inspirational stories of the moral, honorable, old days
  3. Instead, he found the vulgarity and shrewd power lust
Romulus & Augury
1. The Soothsayers, the Oracles, the Auguaries
  1. They predicted the future through the movement of birds and stars
2. Augurs said the birds had chosen Romulus to be King, so Remus attacked him.
  1. Romulus kills Remus.
Rape of Sabine Women
1. Romulus invites Miscellaneous outcasts to Rome
2. They end up with a lopsided male population
3. They steal the women of the Sabine tribe
Lucretia
1. Rome was ruled by Etruscan Kings
2. Etruscans: Decadent and Drunken
3. Romans: Honorable and Loyal
  1. Lucretia is the symbol of Roman virtue
    1. Kindness
    2. Beauty
    3. Honesty
    4. Loyalty
    5. Suicide after being raped.
4. After Lucretia's murder by a drunken Etruscan prince, the Romans kick the Etruscans out
5. Establish the Republic
  1. Res Publica
    1. Public Affair
6. Keep the Senate and the Legions.
7. In the Republic, Publius wrote the laws.
Attack by Gauls
1. After fighting the Etruscans off and becoming independent, the Gals come from over the Alps
2. Gauls move the Romans to create the Road system in the Peninsula to facilitate effective defense
3. The Gauls overtake them and the Romans lock the walls and hope they don't break
Cinncinatus
1. Made Dictator of Rome to fight the Gaul threat
2. After beating the Gauls, he relinquished his dictatorship and went back to plowing.
What brought people to early Rome?
1. First: the image of the enchanting magical place for ambitious traders
2. Then, the outcasts were recruited. The expelled, exiled, and otherwise unwanted.
  1. Who were mostly men, leading to a lack of women
What did the early Romans find?
1. The Etruscan Civilization
  1. Profoundly advanced engineering and metalwork
    1. Harnessing Water
    2. Concrete
    3. Draining Marshes
    4. Metalworkign
    5. Iron working
    6. Bronze working
  2. Visual Art
    1. Metal
    2. Terracotta
    3. Living, Moving, Lively Sculpture
  3. Sex and Women
  4. Human Sacrifice
    1. Blood Sport
What set Rome apart?
1. Organization
  1. Servius Tullius, Etruscan King
    1. mandated the first Census
      1. Through the census, he drafted the Senate, the Patricians, the Rich Elites
        Rudimentary Representative Body
      2. Mandated Military Service from the different Classes