Classical Mythology
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 639 f Guardian of mountains and woods, virgin, you who, when called upon three times, hear women labori ...
640 THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY ent philosophical, religious, and literary sources, most of them Greek. The na- tive Italian i ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 641 with spirits of the dead, particularly of ancestors, the Lares were probably house- hold spirits in ...
(^642) THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY Cattle of Geryon and there killed the monster Cacus (pp. 631-632). To com- memorate the eve ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 643 same price. This time, acting on the advice of the augurs (an important group of priests), Tarquin ...
644 THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY however, and its processions, celebrated in April, were a colorful and popular feature of the ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 645 Map 26.2. Map of Early Rome. (© Laszlo Kubinyi, 1994.) Thus there was Homeric authority for the dev ...
646 THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY The early Roman historians also developed the legend of Aeneas. Around 200 B.c. Fabius Pictor, ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 647 who foretold that he would reach Italy and would only found his new city when hunger had compelled ...
648 THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY between the Latin allies and the Trojans Aeneas killed Turnus in single combat. At this point ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA^649 Underworld. He is a wanderer, like Odysseus, in search of a home; and he is the son of a goddess, l ...
650 THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY Thus at the end Aeneas is overcome by anger mixed with devotion to his dead friend. Vergil lea ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 651 Dido and Anna, by Washington Allston (1779-1843). Oil on millboard, 1809(7); 24 X 18 in. Anna comfo ...
(^652) THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY for Dido before he did for Christ. As with Aeneas and his legend, Vergil took the tradition ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 653 herself seemed to speak: "I am a nymph of the peaceful Numicus. I hide in the river that flows year ...
(^654) THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY Mars and Rhea Silvia, by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). Oil sketch on canvas, 1616-1617; 21 ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 655 Ennius, however, gave a different version of Remus' death, which was fol- lowed by Livy and Ovid. R ...
656 THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY the king of the Sabine town of Caenina and dedicated his armor to Jupiter Fer- etrius (perhaps ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA^657 f "Go," said he, "and tell the Romans that it is the gods' will that my city of Rome should be the ...
(^658) THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY LEGENDS OF THE REGAL PERIOD The period of the kings (which traditionally ended in 509 B.c.) ...
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