CLAS 1010 Lecture 2: 07.08_Foundation Myths of Rome
15 Aug 2016
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Traditions says that rome was founded in 754bc by twin boys, romulus and remus, who were abandoned by their parents but suckled by a she- wolf. Archaeology reveals that the city actually began life in the 9th or 8th cent. as a series of small farmsteads on a group of hills overlooking the river. Crucial development stage took place in the later 7th cent. Etruscan dynasty, the tarquins took control of rome and began its transformation from village to city. The last etruscan king, tarquin the proud, was evicted in 510bc and. Rome became a republic governed by a pair of annually elected magistrates, the consuls. Legend romans traced their history back to aeneas, hero escaped from the sack of troy (12th or 13th cent. He went to carthage (founded in the 8th or 9th cent bc), where he met and fell in love with dido before forsaking her and settling in latium.
