CLAS 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Lars Porsena, Horatius Cocles, Roman Mythology
4 Aug 2016
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Roman mythology vs greek mythology: romans insert themselves into greek mythology, which implies they knew greek mythology very well (virgil did not have to explain iliad and the trojan war when he. Write aeniad ), because from 3 bce, it became trendy and normal for roman aristocra- cy to learn greek language and literature. Many statues we have today are roman copies of greek statues (they would steal them and copy them). Then, they discovered that the consul of this army that was defeated by hannibal, left roma without performing the proper rituals. He proposes peace: story is too good to the true, but portrays roman values (citizen sacrificing himself, showing courage in front of enemy) As the gauls enter rome, the romans fled to the capitoline hill (where there is a temple of jupiter optimus and maximus) One night, the gauls noticed the tracks of a man and decided to enter the the citadel of rome.
