Early Roman History to the fall of Tarquin
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Mont Cavo in the Alban Hills
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The summit of Mont Cavo in the Alban Hills was the centre of the shrine of Jupiter Latiaris, the most important of the common cults of the Latin peoples. According to tradition thirty Latin communities worshipped at Mont Cavo, with the Roman people being just one of these. It was regarded as the Holy Mountain of the Latin peoples. The term Latinum was established in Italy around 1000 BC according to tradition. The Latin people were a Villanovan culture - they lived mainly in villages and cremated their dead preserving the ashes in round hut-urns. They were mainly a pastoral people. They used bronze and iron extensively. Their language was of Indo-European origin and is believed to have been a form proto-Latin. By the Lake of Nemi (meaning Diana's Mirror) there was the centre of the cult of the Goddess of the Grove. The Albanus Lake was another important site because it was connected with Alba Longa, which in Roman tradition was the mother of Rome.
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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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