Numa Pompilius, Lives by Plutarch

Plutarch. Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated) (Delphi Ancient Classics Book 13) (Kindle Locations 1881-2456). Delphi Classics. Kindle Edition.

  1. Plutarch discusses the sources of the Numa story

  2. The disappearance of Romulus, Nomination of Numa Pompilius

  3. Nomination of Numa Pompilius As King, A Virtuous, self-Effacing Man Who Kept Congress with a goddess reluctantly accepts

  4. The First Acts of Numa as King; Policies Based On Pythagorean Thought, Policies For Calming Roman Belligerence, introduction of Religious Ritual and the PriesthoodS (Salii, Fetiales), Consecration And Punishment of Vestal Virgins, Introduction of Palladia (Fire of Vesta, Ancilia)

  5. Built the Regia (House of the Pontifex Maximus), Organization of society by Trades, Adjusted Roman Calendar

  6. Numa’s Marriages, Offspring, Death, Successors

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