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    Servius Tullius was the legendary sixth king of Rome, and the second of its Etruscan dynasty. He reigned from 578 to 535 BC. Roman and Greek sources describe...
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    Kingdom. Tullia Minor was the younger daughter of Rome's sixth king, Servius Tullius, who eventually married Lucius Tarquinius. Along with her husband,...
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    succeeded by his son-in-law Servius Tullius, Rome's second king of Etruscan birth, and the son of a slave. Like his father-in-law, Servius fought successful wars...
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    his elder brother, followed by the assassination of his predecessor, Servius Tullius. His reign has been described as a tyranny that justified the abolition...
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    traditions, Rome's founders Romulus and Remus and the benevolent king Servius Tullius were conceived in this way. Vesta was among the Dii Consentes, twelve...
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    advantage of the confusion to establish Servius Tullius as regent; when the death of Tarquin was confirmed, Tullius became king, in place of Tarquin's sons...
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  • Veientes. In the 6th century BC, according to Livy, Rome's sixth king Servius Tullius went to war with Veii (after the expiry of an earlier truce) and with...
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  • different areas: he doubled the number of the senators and of the Vestals. Servius Tullius then used Numa's work for the election of the consuls. Moreover, he...
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  • Servius may refer to: Servius (praenomen), a personal name during the Roman Republic Servius the Grammarian (fl. 4th/5th century), Roman Latin grammarian...
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    prophetic abilities helped her to install Tarquin as king and later Servius Tullius as the next king. While on the road to Rome, an eagle flew off with...
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    Collatinus. Tarquinia L. f., daughter of the elder Tarquin, married Servius Tullius, and was the mother of the two Tulliae. Lucius Tarquinius L. f. Superbus...
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    Rome, was built in the 6th century BC during the reign of the king Servius Tullius. According to Livy, word had come to Rome of the new and glorious temple...
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    obtain the consulship was Manius Tullius Longus in 500 BC, but the most illustrious of the family was Marcus Tullius Cicero, the statesman, orator, and...
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  • This article concerns the period 579 BC – 570 BC. 579 BC—Servius Tullius succeeds the assassinated Lucius Tarquinius Priscus as the sixth King of Rome...
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    Caeculus and Servius Tullius, not to mention Romulus in the version transmitted by Promathion, which is very similar to the legend of Servius. The founder...
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    formation into the Roman army is ascribed to the city's penultimate king, Servius Tullius (ruled 578–534). The phalanx was effective in large, open spaces, but...
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  • judicandis was a civil court of ancient origin, traditionally attributed to Servius Tullius, which originally dealt with cases concerning whether an individual...
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  • becomes the seventh king of Rome, after murdering his predecessor Servius Tullius. Competitions for tragedy are instituted at the City Dionysia festival...
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    According to tradition, these festival days were instituted by the king Servius Tullius. The high priestess of Jupiter (Flaminica Dialis) sanctified the days...
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  • Younger, along with her husband, arranged the murder and overthrow of Servius Tullius, her father, securing the throne for her husband. Lucius Hostius reportedly...
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    of the people into tribes, as well as the number of thirty wards, Servius Tullius established four tribes dividing Rome and various pagi over the countryside...
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    Rome on the Aventine Hill, according to tradition dedicated by king Servius Tullius. Its location is remarkable as the Aventine is situated outside the...
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    Servius identifies two kings of that name, one ancient Italic, and one Alban, both said to have been buried on the hill in remote antiquity. Servius believes...
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  • Isauricus - consul Marcus Servilius Nonianus - consul Servius - grammarian, commentator Servius Tullius - early king Publius Sestius - praetor Lucius Septimius...
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    in military prowess". Under the Etruscan kings Tarquinius Priscus, Servius Tullius and Tarquinius Superbus, Rome expanded in a northwesterly direction...
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    offers a legend of Servius Tullius, sixth king of Rome, credited with the founding of the Lares' public festival, Compitalia. Servius' virginal slave mother-to-be...
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  • Medullia and Nomentum were subdued and became Roman. Early in his reign, Servius Tullius warred against Veii and the Etruscans. He is said to have shown valour...
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    Centuriate Assembly was supposedly founded by the legendary Roman King Servius Tullius, less than a century before the founding of the Roman Republic in 509...
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    Roman writers disagreed whether her cult was introduced to Rome by Servius Tullius or Ancus Marcius. The two earliest temples mentioned in Roman Calendars...
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    course of the Roman Kingdom until the Comitia Centuriata organized by Servius Tullius. During these first decades, the people of Rome were organized into...
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