The First King (coming out movie)

[Jake Armitage]

That's 99% sure.
Entropy rules reality, and epic has never existed one singular sec, if not into books, drawings or whatever.

[Skotos of Sinope]

Etruscans certainly look like this. Romans, not so much, altough I 'm sure they wanted to be more like their neighbors =)

You sir, have just earned yourself a rep.

[bozu]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrCqpJ05E3k

[Jake Armitage]

This is taken from wikipedia, so it's not official archeology, but think should report researched and attested facts.


There is archaeological evidence of human occupation of the Rome area from about 14,000 years ago, but the dense layer of much younger debris obscures Palaeolithic and Neolithic sites.[12] Several excavations support the view that Rome grew from pastoral settlements on the Palatine Hill built above the area of the future Roman Forum. Between the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron age, each hill between the sea and the Capitol was topped by a village (on the Capitol Hill, a village is attested since the end of the 14th century BC).[13]

In any case, the location that became the city of Rome was inhabited by Latin settlers from various regions, farmers and pastoralists, as evidenced by differences in pottery and burial techniques.[11] The historical Latins were originally an Italic tribe who inhabited the Alban Hills.[when?] They later moved down into the valleys, which provided better land for agriculture. The area around the Tiber was particularly advantageous and offered notable strategic resources: the river was a natural border on one side, and the hills could provide a safe defensive position on the other side. This position would also have enabled the Latins to control the river and the commercial and military traffic on it from the natural observation point at Isola Tiberina. Moreover, road traffic could be controlled, since Rome was at the intersection of the principal roads to the sea coming from Sabinum (in the northeast) and Etruria (to the northwest).

There is a wide consensus that the city developed gradually through the aggregation ("synoecism") of several villages around the largest one on the Palatine. This aggregation, signalling the transition from a proto-urban to an urban settlement, was made possible by the increase in agricultural productivity above the subsistence level, which allowed the establishment of secondary and tertiary activities[clarification needed]: in turn, these boosted the development of trade with the Greek colonies of southern Italy (mainly Ischia and Cumae). All these events, which according to the archeological excavations occurred around the mid 8th century BC, can be considered as the origin of the city.[13]

Recent studies suggest that the Quirinal hill was very important in ancient times, although the first hill to be inhabited seems to have been the Palatine (thus confirming the legend), which is also at the centre of ancient Rome. Its three peaks, the minor hills Cermalus or Germalus, Palatium, and Velia, were united with the three peaks of the Esquiline (Cispius, Fagutal, and Oppius), and then villages on the Caelian Hill and Suburra.

Recent discoveries revealed that the Germalus on the northern part of the Palatine was the site of a village (dated to the 9th century BC) with circular or elliptical dwellings. It was protected by a clay wall (perhaps reinforced with wood), and it is likely that this is where Rome was really founded

[TheRazaman]

Looks interesting thanks for sharing, I'd never heard of this before and will definitely have to check it out. The costuming is clearly made overly primitive to emphasize the Twins upbringing in the wilderness. Even in 753 BC the technological development in that area of Italy was far beyond what this trailer depicts. The Villanovan civilization of central-northern Italy entered the Iron Age in the 900's BC -- before even the Greeks of southern Italy -- and their geographic range (along with the Etruscans) overlapped the areas that the Twins were living in.

[♔Greek Strategos♔]

It's widely known that Etruscans were more advanced than Romans at that point. The Greeks of Italy and Sicily even more advanced. Don't forget Dionysius I the Tyrant of Syracuse, had the biggest fleet in the world, designed and constructed new walls for his cities and invented the first War machines, when Rome was still nothing

[Furgon]

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Romulus
Nothing was before, and any archaeological findings matter little, because unwritten history will never make it out of university libraries, much less into pop culture. So say the bones. Amen.

[♔Greek Strategos♔]

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[TheRazaman]

It's widely known that Etruscans were more advanced than Romans at that point. The Greeks of Italy and Sicily even more advanced. Don't forget Dionysius I the Tyrant of Syracuse, had the biggest fleet in the world, designed and constructed new walls for his cities and invented the first War machines, when Rome was still nothing

True, yet it seems that the main antagonists come from Alba Longa and their technology would not be nearly so primitive as the trailer makes it out to be; however, I understand why they may have done this for stylistic purposes. I'm pretty excited to see it since the entire movie is in a reconstructed proto-Italic.

[bozu]

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