A | B |
April 21, 753 BCE | traditional date for founding of Rome |
First Triumvirate | Caesar, Pompey, Crassus |
Second Triumvirate | Octavian, Marc Antony, Lepidus |
SPQR | Senatus Populusque Romanus |
Seven Hills | Palatine, Capitoline, Viminal, Esquiline, Caelian, Aventine, Quirinal |
Ostia | Rome's seaport |
Third Punic War | 149-146 BCE |
"Carthago delenda est" | "Carthage must be destroyed" (Cato the Elder) |
legendary survivor of Troy | Aeneas |
traditional date for founding of Rome | 753 BCE |
son of Aeneas | Iulus/Ascanius |
city founded by Aeneas in Italy | Lavinium |
last king of Rome in period of Monarchy | Tarquin the Proud |
264 BCE to 241 BCE | First Punic War |
218 BCE to 202 BCE | Second Punic War |
swore an oath as a child to always hate Rome | Hannibal |
Monarchy | 753-509 BCE; rule by individual kings |
Republic | 509-27 BCE; leaders elected by vote |
Empire | 27BCE-476CE; rule by a single emperor |
consuls | highest elected officials during the Republic; two per one-year term |
wedding of Peleus and Thetis | source of Judgement of Paris |
Judgement of Paris | beauty contest between Minerva (Athena), Venus (Aphrodite), and Juno (Hera) that caused Trojan War |
Trojan War | Greeks laid siege to Troy for ten years |
Aeneas | survivor of Troy; led refugees to Italy |
Lavinium | city founded by Aeneas, which he for three years |
Alba Longa | city founded by Iulus/Ascanius, which he ruled for 30 years; then ruled by kings for 300 years |
Romulus | founder of Rome in 753BCE |