CLST 101 Lecture Notes - Quintus Fabius Pictor, Alba Longa, Palatine Hill

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 101
• Professor: Christina Zaccagnino

Document Summary

The first village was on the palatine hill. The first inhabitants were not the best warriors. They wanted to make their past more noble by including a greek background. He was worshipped at the great altar (ara maxima) in rome. The cult founded by evander and the arcadians after hercules killed the bandit cacus, who robbed the hero of the cattle of geryon. They needed a hero from the greek background to connect them to the ancient greek past. This link was made through aeneas, a trojan hero who fought in the war of. Romans believed trojans and greeks were the same. Aeneas escaped the fall of troy carrying his father anchises on his back: he also had a son. Aeneas and anchises are represented on many coins and pottery. Aeneas fell in love with queen dido during his travel, but he had to leave her to find a new place to found a city.