Early Roman History to the fall of Tarquin
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Lars Porsenna
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c. 506 BC. Tarquin enlisted the support of the Etruscan king of Clusium Lars Porsenna. Rome was weakened by food shortages and the Roman army withdrew within the city. The Etruscans nearly got into the city by crossing the bridge but one man, Horatius Cocles, held them up for sufficient length of time for the attempt to fail. Porsenna effectively laid siege to Rome. The consul Valerius successfully executed a stratagem to convince Porsenna that Rome is well-supplied, when it is not. However, Porsenna eventually decided to withdraw when he learnt that a band of young Roman nobles had vowed to attempt to assassinate him. Having decided to withdraw from Rome, Porsenna sent a force under his son, Arruns, to attack Aricia, but the force was almost totally destroyed and Arruns was killed. Porsenna made one more attempt to restore Tarquin by diplomacy, but this also failed.
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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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