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The Mythical Founding of
Rome
The AeneidEscape, adventures, and resettlement
of Aeneas and his followers
Founding of Rome
Founding of Rome
Aeneas:
• Son of prince
Anchises and the
goddess Venus
Founding of Rome
Aeneas:
• Trojan hero, principal
lieutenant of Hector
• Not killed or enslaved
at Troy
Founding of Rome
Aeneas:
• Commanded by
the gods to flee,
gathered a group
• Carried father,
son to the ships
• traveled,
searching for
new homeland
Founding of Rome
Founding of Rome
Aeneas:
• Fierce storm sent by
Juno (Hera) blew
them off course
• 6 years later land at
Carthage
Founding of Rome
Aeneas:
• Welcomed to
Carthage by Queen
Dido
Founding of Rome
Aeneas:
• Retold story of Trojan
War
Founding of Rome
Aeneas:
• Cupid, half-brother,
caused Dido and
Aeneas to fall in love
Founding of Rome
Aeneas:
• Hunting expedition
seek shelter in a cave
Founding of Rome
Aeneas:
• Dido believed that
they were “married”
• Mercury sent to
remind Aeneas of his
duty
Founding of Rome
Aeneas:
• Aeneas secretly left
Carthage
• Dido’s heart broken
commited suicide
• Prophecy
Founding of Rome
Aeneas:
"‘These things I plead; these
final words I pour out of
my blood. Then, Tyrians,
hunt down with hatred all
his sons and race to
come; send this as
offering to my ashes.
Founding of Rome
Aeneas:
Do not let love or treaty tie our peoples.
May an avenger rise up from my bones,
one who will track with firebrand and sword
the Dardan settlers, now and in the future,
at any time that ways present themselves. I call
your shores to war against their shores, your
waves against their waves, arms with their arms.
Let them and their sons’ sons learn what is war'"
Book 4, lines 857-68
Founding of Rome
Founding of Rome
Aeneas:
Landed on the coast
Established Lavinium
Latinus
Founding of Rome
• Romulus plows a
furrow around the
Palatine hill
• Distance encircled
by the furrow was
inside the city
• City walls built on
the furrow line
Early representation
of the village of
Rome
Aventine Hill
Palatine Hill
Caelian Hill
Capitoline Hill
Esquiline Hill
Viminal Hill
Quirinal Hill
Tiber River
Field of Mars
Lucius Junius Brutus:
• founder of
the Roman
Republic
• one of the first
consuls in 509 BC
Cincinnatus:
• Patrician
• Execution of son—forced to live in humble
circumstance, small farmer
Cincinnatus:
• Consul
• Dictator 458 BC,
439 BC
-Military crisis
-Conspiracy to
establish a king
• Twice granted
supreme power, he
held onto it for not a
day longer than
absolutely
necessary
Cincinnatus:
• Role model:
-outstanding
leadership,
-service to the
greater good,
-civic virtue,
-lack of personal
ambition, and
-modesty
Horatius Cocles:
• officer in the
army
• famously
defended
the Pons
Sublicius from
the invading
army of Lars
Porsena,