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History ....which
date back to the ninth or eighth century BC, but the legends relating to
Rome's earliest history tell it slightly differently. Rea Silvia, a vestal
virgin and daughter of a local king,
Numitor, had twin sons -
the product, she alleged, of a rape by Mars. They were supposed to be sacrificed
to the god but the ritual wasn't carried out, and the two boys were abandoned
and
found by a wolf, who nursed
them until their adoption by a shepherd, who named them Romulus and Remus
. Later they laid out the boundaries of the city on the Palatine Hill,
but it soon
became apparent that there
was only room for one ruler, and, unable to agree on the signs given to
them by the gods, they quarrelled, Romulus killing Remus and becoming in
753 BC the
city's first monarch , to
be followed by six further kings. Whatever the truth of this, there's no
doubt that Rome was an obvious spot to build a city: the Palatine and Capitoline
hills provided security,
and there was, of course,
the river Tiber, which could be easily crossed here by way of the Isola
Tiberina, making this a key location on the trade routes between Etruria
and Campania.
The Roman Republic
Rome as a kingdom lasted
until about 507 BC, when the people rose up against the tyrannical King
Tarquinius and established a Republic , appointing the first two consuls
and instituting
a more democratic form of
government. The city prospered...read
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The Roman Empire
A triumph for the new democrats
over the old guard, Augustus (27 BC-14 AD) - as Octavian became known -
was the first true Roman emperor, in firm control of Rome and its dominions.
Responsible more than anyone
for heaving Rome into the...read
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The Christian era
It was the papacy, under
Pope Gregory I ("the Great"; 590-604) in 590, that rescued Rome from its
demise. In an eerie echo of the empire, Gregory sent missions all over
Europe to spread
the word of the Church and
publicize its holy...read
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The Renaissance and Counter-Reformation
As time went on, power gradually
became concentrated in a handful of families , who swapped the top jobs,
including the papacy itself, between them. Under the burgeoning power of
the
pope, the city began to
take on a new aspect: churches were...read
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The eighteenth century
to World War II
The eighteenth century saw
the decline of the papacy as a political force, a phenomenon marked by
the occupation of the city in 1798 by Napoleon; Pius VI (1775-1800) was
unceremoniously
sent off to France as a
prisoner, and...read
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Modern times
Since the war , Italy has
become renowned as a country which changes its government, if not its politicians,
every few months, and for the rest of Italy Rome has come to symbolize
the inertia
of their nation's government
- at odds with both the...read
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Times to Constantine . Makers
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Eyewitness Travel Guide: Rome (Anniversary) .
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