Myth and the City: foundation stories

Question 1

Livy history of Rome Aeneas quotes

Answer 1

advocated peace

Question 2

Livy history of Rome Rhea Silva/ Mars

Answer 2

Vestal was abducted

Question 3

Livy history of Rome Amulius quotes

Answer 3

seized (throne from bro Numitor)
drove out (Numitor)
depriving (Rhea S of children)
kingly greed

Question 4

Livy history of Rome Rom + Rem

Answer 4

grew strong in body and soul
attack robbers
cut down
sole power

Question 5

Plutarch (Greek) Theseus and Romulus - 1 greatness and deeds

Answer 5

🍝- sheer necessity, one tyrant
🏛️- terrible tyrants he drove away, of his own accord

Question 6

Plutarch (Greek) Theseus and Romulus- 2

Answer 6

🏛️- easiness and goodwill
🍝-selfishness and severity

Question 7

Plutarch (Greek) Theseus and Romulus- 6

Answer 7

🍝- rape of women … so many
🏛️- only one for himself

Question 8

Livy the person

Answer 8

Padua, Italy, 64-59 BC
no political career, lived through civil war
downsides: Rome sacked by Gaul in 386 BC so records destroyed
oral tradition
saw no need to dif fact and fiction

Question 9

Plutarch the person

Answer 9

Boetia, Greece
AD 50- 120 AD
priest at Apollo in Delphi
used Livy as a source, filled in gaps w own thoughts