HUMA 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pomerium, Tarpeian Rock, Tarpeia

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The origin of rome according to the romans. Capitoline she-wolf, etruscan origin, 5th century bce. Trojan prince aeneas, son of goddess venus, flees to the burning ruins of troy, sails to. Italy where he marries local latin princess and founds new city near eventual rome. Pietas: concept roughly translated as duty and being good. Good roman men honour their father before anything else. The wolf protected them, behaving contrary to her own nature. The wolf a roman image of protection. Contradiction: female wolf/male babies, singular wolf/two babies. Survival and community key in roman founding legends. Original statue: capitoline hill, associated with the once cicero talked about. Wrote from the beginning of rome to approximately 9bce. Was a professional historian, not a politician. Began to write after 29 bce, after the battle of actium. What is the purpose of ancient history writing: to record/commemorate events, to explain the present, to edify and instruct. Has an escapist mind of the past.

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