The Mythical Founding of

Rome

The AeneidEscape, adventures, and resettlement

of Aeneas and his followers

Founding of Rome

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Aeneas:

• Son of prince

Anchises and the

goddess Venus

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Aeneas:

• Trojan hero, principal

lieutenant of Hector

• Not killed or enslaved

at Troy

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Aeneas:

• Commanded by

the gods to flee,

gathered a group

• Carried father,

son to the ships

• traveled,

searching for

new homeland

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Founding of Rome

Aeneas:

• Fierce storm sent by

Juno (Hera) blew

them off course

• 6 years later land at

Carthage

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Aeneas:

• Welcomed to

Carthage by Queen

Dido

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Aeneas:

• Retold story of Trojan

War

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Aeneas:

• Cupid, half-brother,

caused Dido and

Aeneas to fall in love

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Aeneas:

• Hunting expedition

seek shelter in a cave

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Aeneas:

• Dido believed that

they were “married”

• Mercury sent to

remind Aeneas of his

duty

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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.

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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,