Peoples of Italy

Roman conquest

Italian Hills

The Apennine Ridge

The Apennines

The Etruscans

The Greeks

Acragas (Agrigento)

Temple of Concordia

Ancient Syracuse

The Seizure of the Sabine Women

The intervention of the Sabine Women

Samnites (Fierce Warriors: Sulla defeated them in 80 BC)

Other Peoples

• Volscians• Equians• Ligurians• Opicians (Osci)

Mos maiorum

• Gravitas• Industria• Diligentia• Continentia• Constantia• Pietas• Simplicitas• Benevolentia• virtus.

Family and society

• Pater Familias• Mater Familias (matrona)• Patron (offered support, money, food)• Client (offered his vote and support)• Patricians: originally they had all the power• Gradually the plebeians chip into patrician power, and

eventually they achieve complete inclusion into the Roman state by the 3rd c. (although patrician privilege does not entirely disappear; inequality will always remain).