“Livy” (59 BC – AD 17)
Roman Historian
Ab Urbe Condita
From the Founding
of the City
Periochae
142 Books
(Summaries)
(35 are extant)
“The study of history is the best
medicine for a sick mind.”
-- Livy
Moralist
Emphasis on Rome’s
humble beginnings
Livy
(Fictitious Portrait)
Map Credit: Tataryn77
Source:
http://www.emersonkent.com/map_archive/italy_218_bc.htm
Monarchy
Republic
Empire
753 - 509 B.C.
509 - 27 B.C.
27 B.C. – 476 A.D.
SEVEN
Legendary
Kings
A lot of archaic history is
“based on a true story.”
Light Purple
(NOT TESTED)
INTERREGNUM
“Between
Kings”
Legendary Founder
Humble Beginnings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfXgpem78kQ
Nicolas Poussin, The Rape of the Sabine Women
https://www.youtube.com
Jacques-Louis David, The Sabine Women
How can I add
some dignity
to this office?
(Bodyguards)
Power of
Symbol of Roman Power
Life & Death
Appropriated By:
Strength
Through
Unity
United States
Fascist Italy
Civil Religion
Peace
Temple of Janus
Calendar
Reform
+ January
+ February
JANVS
A Legendary
Miracle
The Servian
Reforms
Unfortunate
Family Life
What makes something fair?
EQUESTRIANS
Photo by 5telios
EQUESTRIANS
The Wealthy:
1. Pay more taxes
2. Have more influence
Six Classes of
INFANTRY:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
80 Centuries
20 Centuries
20 Centuries
20 Centuries
30 Centuries
One Century
Photo by Paul Hudson
Rich Man’s
WAR
Rich Man’s
FIGHT
Photo by Paul Hudson
V Tarquinius
Priscus
SON
SON
VI
Servius
Tullius
Tullia
Tullia
V Tarquinius
Priscus
Tullia
SON
VI
Servius
Tullius
SON
Tullia
I like his
brother
better.
Tullia
SON
I like her
sister
better.
SON
Tullia
Now, let’s
kill my dad.
Tullia
SON
Uh…
SON
Tullia
“With Servius, true kingship came to an end; never again was a
Roman king to rule in accordance with humanity and justice.”
-- Livy
Understanding
Roman Names
HARSH
Ruler
Tarquin had his relatives and
important senators killed so that
they would not be a threat to him.
Photo by ~Brenda-Starr~
(Family Patriarch)
EXTENSIVE
PATERNAL RIGHTS
vitae necisque potestas
I would never kill my
kids, but it’s good to
have the option!
Tarquin arrives late
for a meeting…
Someone
complains…
…and dies!
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate
that Governments long
established should not be
changed for light and transient
causes; and accordingly all
experience hath shewn that
mankind are more disposed to
suffer, while evils are sufferable
than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which
they are accustomed…
“But when a long train of
abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same
Object evinces a design to
reduce them under absolute
Despotism, it is their right, it
is their duty, to throw off such
Government, and to provide
new Guards for their future
security.”
-- The Declaration of Independence
Tarquin’s
nephew
SURVIVAL
“The first to kiss
his mother...”
Photo by: Charles Nadeau
MEN
WOMEN
Virtue
Chastity
Simplicity
Public Service
Military Service
Simplicity
Good Children
Honor Husband
in the Public Sphere
A Violation of
Feminine
Honor
Photo by Daniel Dionne
Sextus Tarquinius and Friends:
Who has the best wife?
Non-Ideal
Ideal
Lucretia
“Commonwealth”
Senatus Populusque Romanus
“The Senate and the People of Rome”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ9SMVC8-C4