Notes For Week 3 Monday Lecture

Chronology

• 504 Lars Porsena
• 490s - attacks by Volsci, Aequi and Sabines
• 499 [496]: battle of Lake Regillus – Romans defeat Latins
• 493 - foedus Cassianum –
• 490-488 Coriolanus leads Volsci against Rome
• 486 - Second Foedus Casssianus - includes Hernici
• 484 Temple to Castor and Pollux built
• 483-474 (-479) Fabian War agains Veii
• 458 Cincinnatus dictator against Aequi
• 437-435 (428-425)- Roman armies capture Fidenae in Roman war against Veii
• 431 – defeat of Aequi and Volsci at Lake Algidus
• 496-396 - Rome defeats Veii and destroys town
• 398-390 – Rome attacks Volsinii and Tarquinii; breaks off to face Gauls
• 395 - Rome takes Capena
• 394 - Rome takes Falerii
• 396 [390 or 381] Gauls sack Rome
• 390-380 – First Gallic invasions
• 389 - Treaty with Marseilles
• 389 - Romans build "Servian Wall"
• 389-387 - Rome takes on Volsci and Aedui
• 386 Caere and Rome co-found a colony in Sardina
• 358 - New treaty with Latin League
• 358-354 – Second Gallic invasions
• 353 - Caere "defeated" and becomes a municipium of citizens without suffrage.
• 351 - Tarquinii and Falerii defeated.
• 348 – Rome’s second (?) treaty with Carthage
• 347-343 - Third Gallic invasions
• 343-341 - First Samnite War
• 340-338 - Revolt of Latin League
• 335 – (380?) port of Ostia established
• 334 – Capua becomes federated municipality
• 332-329 – Fourth/Final Gallic invasions (for 700 years)
• 327-304 – Second Samnite War
• 326 - Roman alliance with Neopolis (Naples) in Campania
• 321 – Caudine Forks
• 318-312 – Rome annexes Capua
• 298-291 – Third Samnite War

People

• Aequi
• Volsci
• Sabines
• Etruscans
• Samnites
• Lars Porsenna
• Aulus Postumus Albinus
• Coriolanus
• Postumius Tubertus
• Marcus Furius Camillus
• Cincinnatus
• Brennus
• Senonian Gauls
• Spurius Cassius
• Appius Claudius

Images for Week 3 Monday lecture:

• Map of Italy:
• tribes of Italy
• map of Latium
• trace map
• Etruria and Rome
• Via Salaria
• Etruscan cities
• medieval illumination of Mucius Scaevola and Lars Porsenna
• another medieval illumination of the same
• medieval ms illumination of Manlius Capitolinus
• Temple of Castor & Pollux - 484 BCE
• Cincinnatus receiving the dictator's toga
• Alban Hills
• map of Ardea and Rome
• Camillus as dictator
• Servian Wall

Factoids & Terms

• Latinum nomen
• Latin League
• Feriae Latinae
• Jupiter Latiaris
• Latin rights
  • commercium
  • connubium
  • migratio
• foedus Cassianum (first and second)
• colonus
• colonia
• municipium
• Magna Graecia
• spoila opima
• provincia

Sources

• Livy on Lars Porsenna and Horatius Cocles, II. 9-10
• Livy on Lars Porsenna and Mucius Scaevola, II. 12-13
• Livy on Cincinnatus, III.26
• Livy on the Sabine attack on the Capitol, III. 15
• Livy on Manlius Capitolinus, 5.47
• Livy on the dictator Camillus' victory against the Gauls, 5.48-55
• Plutarch on Coriolanus; Livy on Coriolanus, II.40
• Livy on Aulus Cornelius Cassus and the spoila opima 4.19.1
• Plutarch on Camillus

Questions:

• What is the relationship between Rome's domestic political history and the history of its foreign affairs during the fifth and fourth centuries.
  
  
• What were the greatest external challenges Rome faced during the fifth and fourth century?
  
  
• Why were these issues a challenge for Rome? How did Rome respond to these challenges?
  
  
• Why was Rome more effective than other Italian states and people in responding to the challenges of the fifth and fourth centuries?