HUMA 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gaius Gracchus, Optimates, Aristocracy
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Two mythical stories: aeneas and the trojan war o. This settlement would later go on to found rome. You can learn from the past and emulate it for your country: at the beginning, rome was great and incredibly moral o. In levi"s time, the people are too greedy and ruining the empire. Romulus and remus: abandons children in a basket and puts them in tiber river. Float upstream towards the place where rome would be o. Wolf could have been a female prostitute, not literal wolves. Romulus and remus o o o o. Go back to where they were born and restore the throne to their grandfather. Remus laughs at it and jumps across the wall. Romulus kills him in the spot and declares that no one will breach the walls of rome. The city of rome under romulus o. Romulus hosts a game and the sabines attend.
