CLASSICS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Livy, Rhea Silvia, Lapis Niger
27 Nov 2013
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27 bc: empire: end date is controversial; 736. Septimontium: 7 hills: capitoline hill, roman forum, palatine hill. Epic poets: patriotic accounts of earlier days: oral tradition, religious hymns, folklore, ceremonies honouring the deceased recounted episodes of their lives, retold again and again to bring honour to the bloodline. Romans venerated their own history: they looked back as much as forward & esteemed traditions and values of older times (maiores) Titus livius (livy) and p. vergilius maro (vergil) Livy, ab urbe condita (from the foundation [of rome]); c. 25 bc, livy wrote c. 700 years after the foundation and earliest events at rome. Vergil, the aeneid, (c. 19 bc) poetic account of the foundation of rome, links rome"s origins back to the trojan war through heroes aeneas, who fled the sack of troy and whose descendents found rome. Aeneas: trojan warrior, fled the sack of troy with penates (household gods)
