CLAS 1000 Lecture 15: Roman History I 15

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Ab urbe condita written by livy, wrote a history of rome. Major source used for roman history, is the aeneid by virgil (like homer and the iliad to the greeks) Rome begins with the siege of troy. A small group escaped the trojan war (aeneas and his family) Aeneas ees the burning city with his father (anchises) on his back and his son (julus) Aeneas is special because his mother is venus (aphrodite) Aphrodite loves her son and saves his life from a warrior in battle. She visits him as he his escaping because he wants to ght in the battle, he does not want to run away because he is not a coward. She says not to go back and ght because he has a bigger destiny than to die in this battle. He is then visited by the ghost of hector who says the same thing.