CLCIV 372 Midterm: Exam 1 Study Guide
19 Jul 2016
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Romulus won the contest and remus attacked him out of jealousy, but he was killed. Romulus built rome as an asylum for refugees, but only men came. Sabine women decided they liked their new roman husbands and convinced their relatives back home to become allies with the rome. Moral of this version of rome"s origin story is that everyone is an outsider. A refugee eeing the sack of troy by the greeks. Aeneas wondered to nd the homeland of his people on the tiber. There, the trojan refugees encountered violent, warrior native people and engaged in a war. Aeneas slew the champion for a reason, whereas romulus founded the city out of competition and murdered his brother simply because his brother was jealous. Story of aeneas offers a model for the integration of rome into the broader mediterranean world. Story brings message of hope for those who survived civil wars in rst century bc.
