06: Rome's Back Pages

I was so much older then... I'm younger than that now.
– Robert A. Zimmerman

The segments of this lecture are:

• 06a: Introduction
• 06b: Why Rome?
• 06c: Podunk on the Tiber
• 06d: A Farewell to Kings
  
• 06e: Conclusions

Important terms, concepts, individuals, and events:

Senate, Latium, Romulus and Remus, Aeneas, Etruscans, Forum, Roman Monarchy, Roman Republic, Numa, Tarquin the Old, Tarquin the Proud, Brutus, magistrates

Questions for consideration: 

1. What are some examples of Roman influence upon American political life?
   
2. What basic concepts of Roman life are contained within their foundation myths?
   
3. Why did the Romans get rid of their kings, and how did they try to keep them away for good?