Rome (eBook)

Day One

Andrea Carandini (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
184 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3806-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Rome's most important and controversial archaeologist shows why the myth of the city's founding isn't all mythAndrea Carandini's archaeological discoveries and controversial theories about ancient Rome have made international headlines over the past few decades. In this book, he presents his most important findings and ideas, including the argument that there really was a Romulus--a first king of Rome--who founded the city in the mid-eighth century BC, making it the world's first city-state, as well as its most influential. Rome: Day One makes a powerful and provocative case that Rome was established in a one-day ceremony, and that Rome's first day was also Western civilization's.Historians tell us that there is no more reason to believe that Rome was actually established by Romulus than there is to believe that he was suckled by a she-wolf. But Carandini, drawing on his own excavations as well as historical and literary sources, argues that the core of Rome's founding myth is not purely mythical. In this illustrated account, he makes the case that a king whose name might have been Romulus founded Rome one April 21st in the mid-eighth century BC, most likely in a ceremony in which a white bull and cow pulled a plow to trace the position of a wall marking the blessed soil of the new city. This ceremony establishing the Palatine Wall, which Carandini discovered, inaugurated the political life of a city that, through its later empire, would influence much of the world.Uncovering the birth of a city that gave birth to a world, Rome: Day One reveals as never before a truly epochal event.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.8.2021
• Übersetzer: Stephen Sartarelli
• Zusatzinfo: 64 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 10 Downing Street • 550 BC • 700 BC • 750 BC • 7th century BC • Acca Larentia • acclamation • Aeneid • aequi • Alba Longa • amulius • Ancile • Ancus Marcius • Annals (Tacitus) • Appian Way • archaeology • Argei • aristocracy • ascanius • Augur • augury • autocracy • Aventinus (mythology) • Cacus • Caelian Hill • Caenina (town) • Capitoline Hill • Casa Romuli • centrism • Cicero • Cispius • city-state • Civil Code • Combatant • Comitium • Constitutional Monarchy • Consus • Crustumerium • cures • Curia Hostilia • Decadence • Decree • deity • despotism • Dictatorship • Dionysius of Halicarnassus • domus • Domus Aurea • Economic Development • Economic Inequality • Ennius • Eretria • Esau • Esquiline Hill • Etruria • Etruscan Civilization • Eumachia • Fasti • Faunus • Faustulus • Ficus Ruminalis • Flaccus • Flamen • founding of rome • Gabii • Gauls • Great Kingdom • Gubbio • hearth • Herder • Hernici • human sacrifice • Humus • Janus • Jupiter (mythology) • King of Rome • King of the Romans • Lares • Larunda • Latins (Italic tribe) • Latinus • Lavinium • Lefkandi • licinius • Lictor • Lituus • livy • loeb classical library • Lucius Tarquinius Priscus • Lucus • Lupercal • lupercalia • Miraculous births • Mommsen • mortality rate • Moses Hadas • Northern Italy • Numa Pompilius • numitor • Official residence • Oligarchy • Oppidum • Pagus • Palace • Palatine Hill • Papirius (pontifex) • Parallel Lives • Parilia • parricide • Patrician (ancient Rome) • Picus • Pomerium • Pons Sublicius • pontifex maximus • Populonia • postern • Princeps • Procas • Propertius • Proto-city • Protohistory • quirites • res publica • rex sacrorum • Rhea Silvia • Roman Calendar • Roman Empire • Roman Mythology • Roman senate • Roma quadrata • Romulus and Remus • sabines • San Pietro in Vincoli • Santa Maria sopra Minerva • Septimius Severus • Septimontium • Servius Tullius • Spolia • Spolia opima • Suetonius • Superiority (short story) • Tabernacle • Tacitus • Tarpeia • Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus • Temple of Vesta • terminalia • The Caesars (TV series) • The Goths • The History of Rome (podcast) • The Other Hand • The Rape of the Sabine Women • Titus Tatius • Tullus Hostilius • Tyrant • Urban History • Valerius Maximus • Veii • Vesta (mythology) • VIA SACRA • Via Salaria • Vicus • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3806-1 / 1400838061
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3806-6 / 9781400838066