Certification Study Group - Professional ML Engineer Session 3 (Machine Learn...
Foundations of Rome
1. The City of Rome
The Mythical Origins of the Eternal City
2. The Mythical Foundations of Rome
• Foundations of cities are dignified by their antiquity, wherein
mortal and divine affairs are allowed to mingle. If any people are
entitled to consecrate their beginnings and trace them back to
divine founders, these are the Roman people, so great is the glory
of their military achievement that, when they lay claim to Romulus
as city-founder and to his father Mars as parent, all humanity
ought to endure it with the equanimity by which they endure our
imperium.
•- Livy, History of Rome (1.1)
3. The Mythical Foundations of Rome
• 390 BCE - Rome Sacked by the Gauls
• All history is lost
• Aeneas
• Romulus & Remus
• Early Kings of Rome
18. The Kings of Rome
• Romulus
• Numa Pompilius
• Tullus Hostilius
• Ancus Marcius
• Tarquinius Priscus “Tarquin the Elder”
• Servius Tullius
• Lucius Tarquinius Superbus “Tarquin the Proud”
19. The Early City: Urbanization of
Rome
• During the 7th century
(“Time of Kings”) Rome
significantly transformed
• Marshy regions drained
• construction of the Cloaca
Maxima
• Rise in population density
• Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus
constructed
• Borders of the city
(pomerium) defined
• Further expansion of Roman
power
21. The Early City: Urbanization of
Rome
• Rise of population
density
• Housing explosion
22. The Kings of Rome
• The Death of Romulus
• Ascends to the heavens?
• Murdered by the Senate?
23. The Kings of Rome
• Tarquinius Priscus “Tarquin the Elder” 616-
579 BCE
• First Etruscan King of Rome
• Circus Maximus
• Cloaca Maxima
• Assassinated
25. The Kings of Rome
• Tarquinius Superbus “Tarquin the Proud” 534 - 509
BCE
• Extended Roman territory
• Completed the Cloaca Maxima
• Built the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus
• Acquired the Sibylline Books