HUM 2- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 17 pages long!)
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Past does not have tangible existence to the present. Artifacts exist, but not the past itself. There are many past, different people have different ways. Influence how people look at the past. When people look at the past, people tend to project themselves into it. Virgil is trying to craft a more glorifying and edifying sense of the origin. Vergil needs to make his story fit to the existing foundations(the history timeline) Vergil creates this more epic foundation of rome. Takes bunch of the greek gods, people and mythological geography. Crafting a foundation that is not only about rome itself, but also about the emperor family. Vestal - somebody who is dedicated to the god, needs to remain virtue, professional virgin. Make ilia vestal, so she would not have male offspring who would seize the crown. But ilia is raped by mars and gives birth to the twin brothers. Brothers brought away but found by she-wolf, and survive.
