The Building Of Lavinium, Livy

Question 0

Ascanius (mother confusion)

Answer 0

May have been either Lavinia’s (named Iulus) or Creusa’s child

Question 1

the town of Lavinium

Answer 1

Named after Aeneas’s new wife Lavinia

Built by the Trojans

Question 2

Turnus

Answer 2

King of the Rutulians
Had been engaged to Lavinia
Started a war against the Trojans And the Latins

Question 3

Outcome of the war (Aeneas and Turnus)

Answer 3

Rutulians lost
Turnus killed
Latinus killed
-Aeneas called both tribes Latins

Question 4

The defeated Rutulians’s decision

Answer 4

The Defeated Rutulians joined with the Etruscans and their king Mezentius who also thought the Trojans were getting to strong

Question 5

Aeneas’s death

Answer 5

Didn't wait for the enemy (Etruscans+Rutulians under Mezentius)
Behind his walls
Met them head on
The Latins won but Aeneas was killed
-the locals call him the local Jupiter

Question 6

Aeneas’s heir to the thrown

Answer 6

His son Iulus/Ascanius was to be king

Lavinia kept his throne until he was old enough

Question 7

Iulus descendant claims

Answer 7

Julius Caesar claimed to be a descendant of Iulus

Question 8

Why Livy doesn’t support a single one

Answer 8

“It is useless to discuss which is true, as it was so long ago you could never decide”

Question 9

Reasons for Ascanius

Answer 9

Being the son of Creusa means that the emperors can claim Trojan inheritance

Question 10

Reasons for Iulus

Answer 10

Julius Ceasar claimed to descend from the son of Lavinia

Livy didn’t want to disrespect the emperors

Question 11

Ascanius as king

Answer 11

Went to found his own city called Alba Longa

The Latin city’s were so prosperous and powerful no one dared to Attack them