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Aeneas flees burning Troy

Section One: describes the founding of Rome. I. The Founding of Rome: “The gods made me do it!”, or “Troy Story” Aeneas: How the Romans tap into Greek history A. Two stories merge into one. As Troy falls, the gods order Trojan prince Aeneas to lead his people to a promise land— Rome!.

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Aeneas flees burning Troy

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  1. Section One: describes the founding of Rome.I. The Founding of Rome:“The gods made me do it!”, or “Troy Story” Aeneas:How the Romans tap into Greek history A. Two stories merge into one. As Troy falls, the gods order Trojan prince Aeneas to lead his people to a promise land— 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 of Aeneas from Troy, (led by Venus, his mother) which led to the founding of the city Rome, is recounted in Virgil's Aeneid. He is considered an important figure in Greek and Roman legend and history. Aeneas 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 Augustusook 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, TheAeneida 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 and gods of Rome and Troy. Becomes the popular explanation and the dominate explanation after the first century AD.

  2. People to Know: Aeneas founding of Carthage-video Legendary Founding of CarthagePeople to Know:Romulus & Remus • 1. Join forcesdna originswith 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 • 3. brothers fight, Remus killed and Romulus becomes king. • (a.) names his city Rome (read story) Early Etruscan/Roman Terra-cota bust showing Gravitas! The moral of the story of Romulus and Remus is a two fold one; first, Rome’s founding is the result of divine intervention and second, take serious things seriously! Gravitas( latin word meaning: dignity, seriousness, and duty)

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