Early Years of Rome-Kings
This is the page for the Early Years of Rome Project
Most of the information you'll need can be found below, though you will need to use other sources as well.
The rubric can be found in Canvas, which is where you will need to turn in all your information and your creative presentation.
This is the link to the Google doc version.
Aeneas through the 7 kings of Rome and other early stories
Livy's Early History of Rome in translation
Citation : Livy: Roman History (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1898), ed. by Duffield Osborne, trans. by John Henry Freese, Alfred John Church, and William Jackson Brodribb (page images at Google; US access only)
Hustwit's Livy pages with Links
Page 1 - Aeneas through the Death of Tullius Hostilius, the 3rd king of Rome
Aeneas escapes Troy
Ascanius and the Founding of Alba Longa - extra article
The Plight of Rea Silvia
Romulus and Remus Decide to Build a City - extra article about Romulus
Rape of the Sabine Women
Sabine Women End the Wars Between Romans and Sabines
Disappearance of Romulus
Election of the Second King of Rome - Numa Pompilius - extra article about him
Election of the Third King of Rome - Tullus Hostilius - extra article about him
The Episode of the Horatii and Curiatii brothers
Punishment of the Traitor King Mettius
The Death of Tullus Hostilius
Page 2 - Election of Ancus, the 4th king, through the fall of the kings .
Election of the Fourth King of Rome - Ancus Marcius - extra article
Appearance of Lucumo - AKA Lucius Tarquinius Priscus - extra article about him
Lucumo's omen
Death of Ancus and Election of 5th King of Rome - Tarquin
Young Servius Tullius on Fire
Murder of Tarquin
Servius rules in Tarquin's "absence"
Newly chosen 6th King of Rome - Servius marries his daughters to Tarquin's sons
Tarquin desires the throne
Tarquin overthrows Servius Tullius
The reign of Tarquinius Superbus [The Proud] - 7th and final King of Rome- extra article
Omens and the Oracle at Delphi
The Rape of Lucretia
Overthrow of the last King
Link to geese story in Livy .
Websites about Roman stories
Illustrated History of Rome. - click on the "Main Chapters" in the top-middle for info about Kings and founding
Early stories of Rome. - Peter Parley's tales about ancient Rome, with some account of modern Italy
Heritage History .- Several books with short, simplified versions to get you started
Roman Kingdom on Wikipedia. - you can use this to get you started but must have additional sources
Kings of Rome. - dry version, not including the fun stuff
Struggle of the Orders .and creation of Plebian Tribunes - power struggle between the aristocracy and commoners
Cursus Honorum
http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/romangvt.html.
http://www.livius.org/ct-cz/cursus/cursus_honorum.html.
Just for Fun :-) Aeneas and his successors. matching game
Listen to some of the stories via podcast
"The History of Rome Podcast by Mike Duncan." Audio Books, Podcasts, and Free Downloads. Web. 03 Feb. 2010. .
History of Rome podcast links - it's podcasts 1-3
These, I've broken up already:
2. Aeneas's escape from Troy and journey....up through the founding of Lavinium and his death
7. Numa PompiliusOpens a New Window.
8. Tullus HostiliusOpens a New Window.
9. Horatii and CuriatiiOpens a New Window.
10. Ancus MarciusOpens a New Window.