Posted on 02/18/2020 11:52:49 AM PST by C19fan
As a kid I recall an Uncle Remus. He starred in a terrific movie, his one hit, but the left disappeared any mention of him and his movie. It's the damnedest thing I'd ever seen.
He was taken by aliens to what would be the planet Romulus...
That’s a Vulcan.
That was the invention of Virgil to tie Rome to the great epics of Homer and give it a national legend all its own. And to curry favor with Julius Caesar and/or Augustus by renaming Aeneas son Julius, implying the family Julii were the founders of Rome.
As I understand it, and I'm just an armchair reader of history so take that caveat to heart, Romans of the time more generally believed that Romulus founded Rome and it fell under Etruscan rule in the mystic past until there was an uprising that freed the city from Etruscan rule led by one Brutus, and this played into the pressure put on Brutus' descendant centuries later to help kill his own mentor Julius Caesar. The symbolism of a Brutus once again liberating Rome from the grip of a tyrant made for good optics.
Nope. Mark Lenard played a Romulan in Balance of Terror and Spock's Vulcan father in Journey to Babel. In the original series, Vulcans and Romulans looked the same. They changed the look of the Romulans in later series.
The Klingons in the Original Series looked like swarthy mid-easterners.
It is just stunning how active and enlightened the western world was around 550 BC and thereabouts. Just an amazing time from everything we know about it. There were massive leaps in every field of endeavor from art to trade to warfare. I would love to know how this happened seemingly all at once.
I didn’t have a tribble with me.
Oh.
Oh I get it... “who’s buried in Romulus’ Tomb” was a gag in the Imperial-period?
And there he is!!!
Maybe then we would have Avunculus Remus Tales
And all sorts of new things happening all over close to then.
The Prophets Daniel and Ezekiel, Pythagoras in Greece, and Buddha, with K’ung-fu-tzu, or Confucius shortly after, all almost at the same time.
Ping.
Most “myths” (apart from today’s myth of human induced climate change) are based on real people and events. They may be embellished over time with exaggeration and mystical nonsense, but there’s almost always a kernel of truth behind them. Romulus and his brother Remus probably existed. And finding a sarcophagus with the former’s name on it is at least very interesting.
Anyone remember the S. Gross (National Lampoon) cartoon on Romulus and Remus?
“Romulus will go on to found Rome. Remus is gay.”
Thankfully I don’t find an image of it online...
A number of vases with Aeneas on them were found at the Etruscan city of Vulci, as if there was a strong interest in him there. Maybe the Romans picked it up from the Etruscans.
BFL
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