Posted on 11/20/2007 10:08:23 AM PST by Pyro7480
Nice photos.
More Clues in the Legend (or Is It Fact?) of Romulus[Rome]
The New York Times | 12 June 2007 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Posted on 06/13/2007 9:21:26 AM EDT by BGHater
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849455/posts
even more pictures:
Mythical Roman cave ‘unearthed’[Cave of Romulus and Remus?]
BBC | 20 Nov 2007 | BBC
Posted on 11/20/2007 3:47:31 PM EST by BGHater
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1928506/posts
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ooooh!
good one.
Wow...great recent shot! Thanks.
Oh. My!
“Or that this is the REAL location of a fictional event?”
Troy was thought to be a fictional event. I think that behind every story is a kernel of truth and I don’t think the Romulus/Remus story is so far out that its beyond the realm of credibility.
If they ever take over Europe, we can kiss good-by to everything from Tara to the Acropolis.
Lupa can mean she-wolf or female prostitute.
Very nice, but wrong city - Naples.
Actually, Aeneas was supposed to have married a Latin Princess, Lavinia, who came from a place called Laurentium and was the daughter of King Latinus. His son supposedly founded a city called Alba Longa from which Romulus and Remus have come. Alba Longa did exist. It was destrooyed by the Romans in an early war and its population incorporated into Rome. Some Net site I was on said they think they have found the cemetary for Alba Longa, but there are no ruins yet located. It was near the Alban Lake.
“The Romans were hilarious in that regard. They literally invented their founding mythology, knowing damn well what their origins really were: A minor Latin tribe ruled over by the Etruscans.”
Part of what you say is true, but there is substance to waht they state. The Romans were NOT Etruscans and Etruscan was not an Indo-European Language. They may have had Etruscan rulers, but according to their history - and they were closer to the event than you are, they kicked them out. The fact that the Romans spoke Latin and not Etruscan bears this out.
Augustus certainly had his own political agenda - things don’t change. And I doubt if his family was directly decedended from the Trojans - they were iconoclasts. But the Aeneid is based on langends and stories the Romans themselves believed long before Augustus was born.
This is what I remembered...
Unearthing Rome’s King (Numa Pompilius)
Times | 10-8-2007 | Richard Owen
Posted on 10/08/2007 7:43:40 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1908392/posts
and here’s some more:
Emperor Maxentius insignia found in Rome
AP on Yahoo | 12/3/06 | Marta Falconi - ap
Posted on 12/03/2006 2:57:26 PM EST by NormsRevenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1747883/posts
Rome’s Palatine Hill shows new treasures
AP via Yahoo! | 1-23-07 | Ariel David
Posted on 01/23/2007 8:07:37 PM EST by Dysart
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1772564/posts
Emperor’s Treasures Found (Maxentius)
The Times Online | 1-31-2007 | Richard Owen
Posted on 01/31/2007 5:21:08 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1776985/posts
Scholars Unearth Mystery (Romans)
Rocky Mountain News | 2-13-2006 | Jim Erickson
Posted on 02/19/2006 7:46:32 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581889/posts
Ancient Rome is rebuilt digitally
Associated Press | 6 minutes ago | Ariel David
Posted on 06/11/2007 5:21:35 PM EDT by BenLurkin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1848519/posts
Wow, nice travel tip!
They were happy to get her.
Legendary...yeah; that’s me.
Thanks for the information. A few more pieces of the puzzle have fallen into place.
So would I. Even now.
Its all in the Aeneid.
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