- came from the north - central part of peninsula
- metalworkers, artists, architects
- two foundation myths: Virgil's Aeneid (Where Aeneas escapes from Troy - Sound familiar) Plus the story of Remus and Romulus
Greek
- they had many colonies around the Mediterranean Sea
- Romans borrowed ideas from then
- - religious beliefs
- - alphabet
- - much of their art
- - military technique and weaponry
The Latin
- descendants of Indo - Europeans
- settled on the banks of Tiber
- situated so trading ships - but not war fleets
- - could navigate as far as Rome, but not further
- a commercial port, but not susceptible to attack
- build on seven hill
They drained a swamp
- many steams flowed into the Tiber
- there was a marshy area called the Forum, between Palatine and Capitoline Hills
- Tarquin the Proud's grandfather built the Cloca Maxima (largest ancient drain), which channeled water into Tiber
Tarquin the Proud
- Lucius Tarquinias Superbus
- the seventh and final king of Rome
- known as Tarquin the Proud (sometimes referred to as Tarquin the Arrogant)
- a true tyrant, in the old and modern sense of the word
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