HIST 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ascanius, Spartacus, Pacific Islands Forum
15 Sep 2016
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Believed that their own origins extended much further into time than what history suggests. They believed that their origin was strongly linked to the goddess venus (aphrodite) and the city of troy. Romans rebranded multiple greek gods with their own names. They would also be suspicious about the greeks and their secret intentions (especially with gifts due to the trojan horse) because the. Try as they might, the greeks didn"t manage killing all of the. Trojans - some of them slipped into the night in a band together. Aeneas (son of aphrodite), anchises (his father), ascanius (julus) Romulus and remus are twin boys, but their birth is linked to the divine even though aeneas is their biological father. It is said that mars is their divine father because he raped their mother. They grow up and on april 21, 753 bc set out to found a new city themselves.
