CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Roman Mythology, Sabines, Aeneid
25 Aug 2016
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The intervention of the sabine women first picture of ppt. Romans adopted a whole sail from the greeks. This is a scene from roman legend the intervention of the sabine women. Romulus (the first king of rome) has established the city, but he didn"t have any people yet. He sent invitations to people around declared the city an asylum (a sanctuary where anyone who is exiled can come to rome) (you get all the lame people that were exiled but mostly men) But then he had no women so used deceit and force: men and women from the sabine tribes were invited to attend the festival games where there is chariot races etc. Sabines and romans decide to live together at. The romans see themselves as people that accept others, they were very open to the absorption of people. They conquered and absorbed the people that they beat - this relates to the roman identity.
