Early Roman History to the fall of Tarquin
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The ancient Latins
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The ancient Latins kept no records of their origins. According to later Roman and Greek authors the Latins originated from a mixture of Aboriginees, Ligurians and Sicels. During the early Iron Age the region was only thinly cultivated. The inhabitants developed a form of the Villanovian culture that also flourished in Etruria before the Etruscans. It is now called the Latial culture by archaeologists. Latial culture began to develop after 800 BC. The Latins originally inhabited villages (vici) located on hills for protection and were farmers and herdsmen. Some ancient writers suggest that the number of separate communities was fifty; the Prisci Latini ("Original Latins") are given as thirty. They had a common language and were organised by clans (gentes). However, the family unit (familia) was very important and the eldest male (paterfamilias) had a position of near absolute power within it. It is possible that the villages were organised into cantons (pagi) which shared a religious cult. The main cult of the region was that of Jupiter, whose centre was the village of Alba Longa
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Contents of
Early Roman History to the fall of Tarquin
1 Latium and Rome - the site of Rome
2 The ancient Latins
3 The problem of sources
4 Fabius Pictor and Cincius Alimentus
5 The Roman annalists
6 Greek references to early Roman history
7 The work of the Roman annalists
8 Primary sources for Roman history
9 Further primary sources for early Roman history
10 The traditional account of early Roman History from Livy
11 Ascanius
12 Romulus
13 Numa Pmplius
14 Tulius Hostilius
15 Mettius
16 Ancus Marcius
17 Tarquinius Priscus
18 Servius Tullius
19 Tarquinius Superbus
20 The Rape of Lucretia
21 Lars Porsenna
22 Rome, Latium and the foundation of Rome c. 1200 BC - c. 750 BC
23 The founding of Rome
24 Mont Cavo in the Alban Hills
25 The Palatine Hill
26 The myth of the Sabine women
27 The early Kings of Rome c. 750 BC - c. 600 BC
28 Early constitution of Rome
29 The period of the Etruscan preponderance: c. 600 BC - c. 510 BC
30 The reign of Servius
31 The reign of Tarquinius Superbus
32 The foundation of the Roman Republic
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