Augustus, the first Roman emperor and emperor during Virgil’s time, and Julius Caesar, his great-uncle and predecessor as Roman ruler, were said to be descended from Aeneas.
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Priscus)son of Demaratus the Corinthian from
Greece!
Demaratus was exiled from Corinth & migrated with his followers to the city of Tarkinia in Lazio central Italy, where he was given civil rights &married an Etruscan lady. He named one of his sons+
Greece!
Demaratus was exiled from Corinth & migrated with his followers to the city of Tarkinia in Lazio central Italy, where he was given civil rights &married an Etruscan lady. He named one of his sons+
Tarcinius in honor of his new city.
That Tarkinius invaded Latio defeated the Latins & the Sabines uniting their towns to a new city on the Greek standards building the acropolis of the city (the Capitolium) agora (forum), temples, theater & the great+
That Tarkinius invaded Latio defeated the Latins & the Sabines uniting their towns to a new city on the Greek standards building the acropolis of the city (the Capitolium) agora (forum), temples, theater & the great+
hippodrome etc essentially creating a new city-state that was bound to become exactly what it was named for, POWER!
Strabo also writes that Lucius Coelius Antipater believed that Rome was founded by Greeks.
Another Roman foundation legend,which has+
Strabo also writes that Lucius Coelius Antipater believed that Rome was founded by Greeks.
Another Roman foundation legend,which has+
its origins in ancient Greece, tells of how the mythical Trojan Aeneas founded Lavinium & started a dynasty that would lead to the birth of Romulus+Remus several centuries later. In the Iliad,an epic Greek poem probably composed by Homer in the 8th
century+
century+
B.C., Aeneas was the only major Trojan hero to survive the Greek destruction of Troy. A passage told of how he and his descendants would rule the Trojans, but since there was no record of any such dynasty in Troy, Greek scholars proposed that Aeneas and his+
followers relocated.
In the 5th century B.C. a few Greek historians speculated that Aeneas settled at Rome, which was then still a small city-state. In the 4th century B.C., Rome began to expand within the Italian peninsula and Romans coming into greater+
In the 5th century B.C. a few Greek historians speculated that Aeneas settled at Rome, which was then still a small city-state. In the 4th century B.C., Rome began to expand within the Italian peninsula and Romans coming into greater+
contact with the Greeks, embraced the suggestion that Aeneas had a role in the foundation of their great city. In the first century B.C., the Roman poet Virgil developed the Aeneas myth in his epic poem the Aeneid, which told of Aeneas’ journey to Rome. +
Augustus, the first Roman emperor and emperor during Virgil’s time, and Julius Caesar, his great-uncle and predecessor as Roman ruler, were said to be descended from Aeneas.
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