Chi Cago's Guide to Ancient Rome Slides 1-8

• Etruscans settled in Rome: metalworkers, artists, architects
• Etruscans from north-central part of the peninsula
• Foundation myths: Virgil’s Aeneid and story of Remus and Romulus
• Greeks settled in Rome: had many colonies around the Mediterranean Sea
• Romans borrowed Greek religious beliefs, alphabet, much of their art, military techniques and weaponry
• Latins were the first settlers of Rome; settled on the banks of Tiber
• Latins= descendants of Indo-Europeans
• Latin trading ships could navigate to Rome but no further - commercial port, built on 7 hills including Palatine
• Streams flowed into the Tiber
• Marshy area called the Forum,  between Palatine and Capitoline Hills
• Cloaca Maxima was largest ancient drain which channeled water into the Tiber: built by Tarquin the Proud’s grandfather
• Washington DC was built on a swamp (urban legend) but only about 2% was actually swampland
• Constitution Avenue located on what used to be called Tiber Creek (like Tiber River)
• Lucius Tarquinias Superbus:  seventh and final king of Rome


• also called Tarquin the Proud or even Tarquin the Arrogant- he was a TYRANT