What scene from Roman mythology are this Renaissance

painting and sculpture depicting? What significance would this scene

have had for Romans?

Tuesday, April 23, 13

The Founding of the Latin Race...“Aeneas, prince of Troy, son of Venus and Anchises,

escaped the fall of that city bearing the Penates (household Gods) of his house on his back. Along with other fugitives, he went into exile. He sailed from Troy in western Anatolia, first to Macedonia on the Grecian peninsula, then to Sicily, the island south of Italy, and thence to the territory of Laurentum, on the Italian mainland. In the course of their wanderings, Aeneas and his men had lost everything they had, except for their ships and swords; once ashore in Laurentum, they began to scour the countryside for supplies.”

Tuesday, April 23, 13

Latinus

Lavinia

Ascanius

Turnus

Alba Longa

ProcaNumitor

Amulius

“Latins”

Rhea Silvia

FaustulusRomulus and

Remus

Tuesday, April 23, 13

Tuesday, April 23, 13

Tuesday, April 23, 13

THE RAPE OF LUCRETIATHE FOUNDING OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC

Tuesday, April 23, 13