Roman Culture
A Journey Through Roman Eras
Walk twelve centuries of Rome — history, customs, and myth for every era, with an interactive timeline, era search, short quizzes, and primary sources.
Interactive timeline · click a dot753 BC → AD 1453
753 – 509 BC
Regal Period
The seven kings and Rome's mythic birth.
Rome begins as a cluster of hill villages on the Tiber. Tradition names seven kings — Romulus, Numa, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius Priscus, Servius Tullius, and Tarquinius Superbus — who lay down religion, law, the calendar, and the first city walls before a violent revolution ends monarchy forever.
Key figures
Romulus
Founder, first king
Numa Pompilius
Priest-king who shaped Roman religion
Servius Tullius
Reformer of army and citizenship
Lucretia
Noblewoman whose death sparked the Republic
Lucius Junius Brutus
Founder of the Republic, first consul