This is the History of the World Podcast with me Chris Hasler

And you're listening to volume three

The Classical World

Episode 51 A Summary of ancient Rome, part one. Oh, It's very difficult to pinpoint the earliest origins of the city of Rome, and this is because

Rome's history has been buried under layers of newer material from each time the city has been rebuilt.

Rome's archaeological history is underneath today's city,

so a lot of our knowledge comes from written records. We certainly know that the Etruscan's were around

the area of the modern city of Rome at the beginning of the first millennium B.

E. C. E. E's were not Indo-European language speakers,

but the Latins were, and they migrated into the Italian peninsula during the late Bronze Age. The Latins were diverse in their tribes

so they did not view themselves as a United Nation. They were a people with common language and common culture.

Latin is a language that belongs to the italic language family, which is a branch of Indo-European. There were other Indo-European.

There were other Indo-European speaking cultures who migrated into the Italian Peninsula

as well as the Latins.

An example of the Umbrians who settled the lands east of where the Latins would found Rome.

The founding of Rome is something that we know very little about and the main source for the explanation

is the mythological story of the Wolf boys.

Inius is a man who exists in Greek mythology.

Ineus is said to have escaped from Troy after it was destroyed by the Greeks.

A descendant of Ineus was a lady called Ria Sylvia and she gave birth by the God

called Mars to twin boys called Romulus and Remus. The two boys were abandoned in the wild while young and brought up by a she-wolf.

When the two boys became adults they built the city of Rome on the Palatine Hill.

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