Week 11

Question 1

Rome

Answer 1

Founded as a small town, so like 753 bc
- the etruscans to the north were the dominant and developed civilization
- according to tradition, Rome was ruled by those kings but they were thrown out and founded thr roman republic

Question 2

Roman republic

Answer 2

• oligarchy ran
• appointed people to their council amongst themselves
• poor people existed, represented by the magistrate, the tribune
• 4th to 3rd century bc, Rome expanded in Italy, by 270, it controlled most of Italy
• punic wars

Question 3

Virgil

Answer 3

• a roman poet writing during the imperial reign of emperor Augustus
• he wrote several long poems but his most well known work was the epic “the Aeneid”, thr story of the founding of the Roman peope from aeneas, a Trojan prince
• imitates the homeric epics, but made as a written text
• made to please the emperor and published in 19 bc

Question 4

Aeneas

Answer 4

• son of ahrodite who escaped the destruction of Troy with his father and son according to Homer
• Roman legend shows that this prince will escape to Italy and found the Roman people
• aenaes was claimed as the ancestor of Julius Caesar and Augustus, his son was the founder of the Julian family
• in Virgil version, it shows the journey of aeneas like odysseus in the Odyssey

Question 5

Virgil aeneid

Answer 5

• written by Virgil in the Roman Empire time
• opening lines of the aeneid
• aeneas is part divine and hated by a goddess hera
• hera likes Carthage, and aeneas destroyed it, judgement of Paris, ganymede
• ties the poem and the legend back to Roman history

Question 6

Aenaes and Carthage

Answer 6

• aenaes ends up in Carthage, home of queen dido
• aphrodite makes dido fall in love with him, but he cannot forget his duty and secretly leaves her to continue his journey
• dido kills herself
• Carthage is seen as a threat to the founding of the Roman race, a distraction
• dad dies so he goes to the underworld and shows the future roman rulers
• he founds Rome

Question 7

Romulus and Remus

Answer 7

• the historian Livyis also writing “history of Rome” during the reign of Augustus, retells the early history of Rome including the ancient myth romulus and Remus
• 450 years after, the twins are left to die but suckle on a she-wolf
• grow up, overthrow the wicked king, romulus kills Remus in an argument after founding Rome
• rolmulus becomes a god

Question 8

Augustus

Answer 8

• in 27 BC, octavian becomes Augustus, the first roman emperor
  -a clever propagandist, viewed himself as the champion of the republic
• consults the senate, sense of power
• rightful heir of Julius Ceasar
• beautified the city of Rome
• uses Greek myth and Greek culture to reinforce the messages and his own importance to Rome