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The Roman Monarchy
TITVS LIVIVS
“Livy” (59 BC – AD 17)
Roman Historian
Ab Urbe ConditaFrom the Founding of the City
142 Books (35 are extant)
Periochae
(Summaries)
“The study of history is the best medicine for a
sick mind.”
-- Livy
Livy(Fictitious Portrait)
Moralist Emphasis on Rome’shumble beginnings
TITVS LIVIVS
Map Credit: Tataryn77
The Roman Empire
IN THE BEGINNING…
Source: http://www.emersonkent.com/map_archive/italy_218_bc.htm
PERIODS OF ROMAN HISTORY
Monarchy 753 - 509 B.C.
Republic 509 - 27 B.C.
Empire27 B.C. – 476
A.D.
SEVENLegendary
KingsA lot of archaic history is “based on a true story.”
ROMAN KINGS
THE ROMAN KINGS
Light Purple (NOT TESTED)
ElectedHereditary
INTERREGNUM“Between
Kings”
Legendary FounderHumble
Beginnings
ROMVLVS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfXgpem78kQ
Nicolas Poussin, The Rape of the Sabine Women
“Sobbin’” Women
https://www.youtube.com
Jacques-Louis David, The Sabine Women
How can I add some dignity to this office?
(Bodyguards) LICTORS
Symbol of Roman Power
Appropriated By:
Strength
Through Unity
Power of Life & Death
United States
Fascist Italy
FASCES
NVMA POMPILIVS
JANVS
Civil ReligionPeaceTemple of
JanusCalenda
r Reform
+ January+ February
SERVIVS TVLLIVS
A Legendary Miracle
The Servian Reforms
Unfortunate Family Life
fAIRNESS
What makes something fair?
THE SERVIAN
REFORMS EQUESTRIANS
The Wealthy:1.Pay more taxes2.Have more
influence
Six Classes of
INFANTRY:
1. 80 Centuries2. 20 Centuries3. 20 Centuries4. 20 Centuries5. 30 Centuries6. One Century Photo by Paul Hudson
Rich Man’s
WAR
Rich Man’s
FIGHT Photo by Paul Hudson
FAMILY
Tarquinius Priscus
Servius Tullius
Tullia TulliaSON SON
V VI
SONTullia
Tarquinius Priscus
Servius Tullius
TulliaSON
V VI
SONTullia TulliaSON
I like his
brother better.
I like her
sister better.
SONTullia TulliaSON
Now, let’s kill my dad.
Uh…
“With Servius, true kingship came to an end; never again was a Roman king to rule in accordance with humanity and justice.”
-- Livy
LVCIVS TARQVINIVS SVPVRBVS
Understanding Roman Names
Praenomen
(First)
Nomen (Last)
Cognomen(Nickname)
TARQUIN “THE PROUD”
HARSHRuler
purges
Tarquin had his relatives and important senators killed so that they would not be a threat to him.
Photo by ~Brenda-Starr~
PATER FAMILIAS
EXTENSIVE
PATERNAL RIGHTS
(Family Patriarch)
vitae necisque potestas
I would never kill my kids, but it’s good to have the option!
Tarquin arrives late for a meeting…
Someone complains…
…and dies!
Jefferson on the Nature of
Revolutions
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed…
Jefferson on the Nature of
Revolutions
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
-- The Declaration of Independence
LVCIVS JVNIVS
BRVTVS
Tarquin’s nephew
SURVIVAL
Photo by: Charles Nadeau
“The first to kiss his mother...”
MEN
ROMAN HONOR
WOMEN
Virtue
Simplicity
Public Service
Military Service
Chastity
Simplicity
Good Children
Honor Husband
in the Public Sphere
The spark
A Violation of Feminine
Honor
Photo by Daniel Dionne
THE REVOLVTION
Sextus Tarquinius and Friends:
Who has the best wife?
Lucretia Non-Ideal
Ideal
Sandro Botticelli
The Story of Lucretia
RES PVBLICA
Senatus Populusque Romanus
“The Senate and the People of Rome”
“Commonwealth”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ9SMVC8-C4
