Wide Angle Photo Of The Roman Forum, Rome Stock Image

The valley of the Forum, swampy and inhospitable, was used between X and VII century BC as a necropolis of the first villages allocated the surrounding hills. According to the historian Tacitus, the plain of the Forum as well as the nearby hill of the Capitol were added to the square Rome (Palatine) of Romulus to Titus Tatius. Livy and other ancient authors say that, shortly after the founding of Rome, was fought in the area of the future Roman Forum a great battle between the Romans and Sabines: The Battle of Lake Curzio. Cause of the clash was the betrayal of the vestal virgin, Tarpeia, daughter of the commander of the nearby Roman fortress Tarpeio Spurrier, who, bribed with gold by Titus Tatius, ushered in the fortified citadel on the Capitoline Hill with a group of armed deception. [2] the occupation of the Sabines of the fortress, led the two armies to stand at the foot of two hills (Palatine Hill and Capitoline Hill, right where later arose the Roman Forum ), while the leaders of both parties urged the their soldiers to fight: Mezio Curzio for the Sabines and Ostio Ostilio for the Romans. The battlefield was surrounded by many hills, does not give the two armies sufficient escape routes or restricted areas to pursue the enemy en route. It is said that during the battle, Romulus, seeing his back, he invoked Jupiter and promised if they won a temple dedicated to him (near the Roman forum), and then threw himself into the midst of the battle being able to fight back to the places where, a few years later, would arise the so-called Regia and the Temple of Vesta. It was at this time that the Sabine women, who had been abducted earlier by the Romans, ran under a hail of bullets from the opposing factions to divide the contenders and appease the rage.