Classical Mythology

ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 625

ALPES MONTHS

Map 26.1. Roman Italy and Sicily

gustus with great ceremony, for example, to mark the end of the protracted civil
wars that brought him to power. In the early days of Rome, the bridges would
have been broken when the city was threatened by an enemy; an analogy for
opening the gates of Janus in time of war would be raising a drawbridge over
a moat.