CLAS 1000 Lecture : Week 7.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Dated events in their calendar auc (ab urbe condite - from the date of the founding of the city: april 21. Origins of rome lay in the uniquely greek experience: trojan war. Saw their origins at the fall of troy. They couldn"t kill all the trojans, a hardy amount of survivors got away. Heroic choice: he leaves dido behind. To prove the depth of her hatred, aeneas and wandered and descended into the underworld. Greeks were very firm to creating their own individual identities at the exclusion of all other cultures: romans were very good at recognizing excellence amongst others and taking it into themselves. He finds alba longa: named the city lavineum after her, live together happily but not yet creating rome. Romulus and remus: their father is the god of war, wolf is an iconic animal that speaks much of their character, wolf could only nurture for so long, faustulus.