CLA233H1 Midterm: Study Notes for First Test
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His stories were primarily moral in uences and examples; how a roman should and should not think of himself, his country, and behavior. Livy has two stories for the origins of rome: Trojan exiles; aeneas leads a group of noble, highborn trojans across the world to found a new city, founds the rst of a series of cities which will eventually be. Slaves and criminals; romulus, the only descendant of aeneas to actually be in. Rome, determines the whole population will be comprised of runaway slaves. He creates the asylum in his new city to populate it. Romulus and remus were rescued by a she-wolf or a woman named laurentia (slang for prostitute) Romulus and remus mother, rhea silvia, claimed to be raped by a god. But the possibility exists she was lying. Romulus and remus both have valid auguries, so they ght. Livy words it: ghting ensued and remus died, not romulus killed remus.
