Character

• Asylum


  he built temple in ‘the space between the two groves’ for asylum seekers wanting to escape tyrannies
• Livy's opinion on the Asylum

  Livy claims Romulus invited criminals and outcasts
• absolute monarch, ruled by decree
• he set up the trappings of kingship


  lictors, political bodyguard carrying fasces (axes) and curule chair (special throne)
• granted citizenship to refugees to establish Romes population


  e.g. rape of the Sabine women, forum built between the Palatine and Capitoline Hills
• fortified the Palatine Hill
• created a client-patron system

  divided the population into patriarchs and plebeians
• divided the population into 3 tribes and 30 curiae
• created the senate


  100 patrician senators called ‘patres’
• Temple to Jupiter


  built a temple to Jupiter (Zeus) in thanks for military success against Caenina after the rape of the Sabine Women brought religious practices from Alba Longa
• Archaeology suggests roman region was influences by many other cultures as it developed over time


  including Greek, Etruscan, Apennine, Latial Villanova
• continued the worship of Hercules

  Greek hero, also worshipped in Italy/Rome

  aved the townspeople from brigand Cacus (fire-breathing giant)in the area where Rome would be founded
• organised a system of military tribunes(organisers)


  passed orders to centurions(unit commanders)
• famous for his military innovations

  300 celeres (swift-ones) – elite bodyguards
• After Romulus' death


  he was hailed as a god

  known as Quirinus