Saturday, January 3, 2015
7 hills...............Tom Jefferson wanted to name capital hill,,,,,,,,,,,Capitaline hill after one of them from Rome............the Vatican, as in the country........is within the Italian city of Rome..................odd to me at least...........add to that that 7th st. nw wash dc is s
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Rome was founded by two twin boys who were nursed by a giant wolf......................what else can u expect but mischief...........boys will be boys............esp. if mama's milk came from some she wolf......................but anyways...........
Modern scholarship approaches the various known stories of Romulus and Remus as cumulative elaborations and later interpretations of Romanfoundation-myth. Particular versions and collations were presented by Roman historians as authoritative, an official history trimmed of contradictions and untidy variants to justify contemporary developments, genealogies and actions in relation to Roman morality. Other narratives appear to represent popular or folkloric tradition; some of these remain inscrutable in purpose and meaning. Wiseman sums the whole as themythography of an unusually problematic foundation and early history.[5][6] Cornell and others describe particular elements of the mythos as “shameful”.[7] Nevertheless, by the 4th century BC, the fundamentals of the Romulus and Remus story were standard Roman fare, and by 269 BC the wolf and suckling twins appeared on one of the earliest, if not the earliest issues of Roman silver coinage. Rome’s foundation story was evidently a matter of national pride. It featured in the earliest knownhistory of Rome, which was attributed to Diocles of Peparethus. The patrician senator Quintus Fabiu
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