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woody figu 0 All_Shopp Section One: describes the founding of Rome. Aeneas was a Trojan hero, the son of prince Anchises and the goddess Venus. His father was also the second cousin of King Priam of Troy. The journey Aeneas from byme Venus, his mother) led Aeneas: How the The Founding ofofRome: “TheTroy, gods (led made do it!”, or “Troywhich Story” to the founding of the city Rome, is recounted in Virgil's Aeneid. He is Romans tap into Greek history considered an important figure in Greek and Roman legend and A. Two stories merge into one. As Troy falls, the gods history. I. order Trojan prince Aeneas to lead his people to a promise land— Aeneas Rome! flees burning Troy The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the IIiad. Roman poet Virgil ( 29-19 BCE), commissioned, according to tradition by Augustus ook the disconnected tales of Aeneas' wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous piety, and fashioned this into a compelling founding myth, The Aeneid a nationalist epic that at once tied Rome to the legends of Troy, glorified traditional Roman virtues and legitimized the Julio-Claudian dynasty as descendants of the founders, heroes Becomes the popular explanation and the dominate explanation after the first century AD. and gods of Rome and Troy. People to Know: Aeneas People to Know: founding of Carthage-video Legendary Founding of Carthage Romulus & Remus 1. Join forces dna origins with a native people known as Latins B. 800 B.C. Latin princess gave birth to Romulus and Remus 1. raised by a she-wolf 2. Let the gods choose who should rule Early Etruscan/Roman Terra 3. brothers fight, Remus killed and cota bust showing Gravitas! Romulus The moral of the story becomes of Romulus king. and Remus is a two fold one; first, Rome’s founding the result divine (a.) names hisis city Romeof(read story) intervention and second, take serious things seriously! Gravitas ( latin word meaning: dignity, seriousness, and duty)