CLASSICS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Lupercal, Capitoline Triad, Rhea Silvia
24 Oct 2014
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Most myths are greek in origin, but as they get to us they go through rome (ex. But at the same time, rome does not have a great deal of myth fewer of the classic stories. Canon of roman myth smaller, but independent (romans didn"t just take the myths of the greeks and change them, they had their own myths, gods, and goddesses). Normally don"t relate to great monsters, gods etc. It is more of a mythic past tell history more outright. Interested in the great acts of their forbearers looked back to ancestors for guidance. Normally males, and war focused masculine myth. Custom the way of our betters the way of their predecessors under the idea that humanity was. 753 bce: traditional foundation of rome ultimate myth tells the story of rome. E: where we have an institution/place named after the first rules rome names after him.
