CLA231H1 Lecture 4: Regal Period

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Note again problems reconstructing early history of rome. Still useful for how later romans retro-jected stories onto their own past, with a kernel of truth. Intersection of myth/legend with history/archeology blending the two to give an accepted literary tradition: creating prototypes to explain tradition with etiology attempt to explain phenomenon. Could count back to this foundation a. u. c. Two broad myths on the creation of rome. Many fragmented stories that become the two main ones, but others do exist. Trojan warrior from the iliad mother is venus. Ancient iconography: in black figure pottery in greece, 6thc bce, attica. Image taking his father and son with him, leaving behind his wife, remarries latin woman populating rome. Lavinium, port of latium: where aeneas arrives, marries lavinia: he(cid:396)o"s to(cid:373)(cid:271) fou(cid:374)d he(cid:396)e, possi(cid:271)ly to ae(cid:374)eas. Romans want to link back to troy to connect themselves with med world as enemy of the greeks; lend creditability to their tradition. More localized, less med version, but italic.

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