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  • Section 3

  • from Part Two - Early Roman history: from Aeneas to Hannibal
  • Peter Jones, Keith Sidwell, University of Calgary
  • Book:
    Reading Latin
    Published online:
    28 May 2018
    Print publication:
    18 October 2016, pp 86-120

  • Summary

    Section 3A Aeneas and the Trojan War

    Aeneas was a great Trojan hero, destined (Homer tells us) to survive the TrojanWar and rule Troy (Iliad 20.294–308; see map 2, p. xxi). The early Roman epic poet Naevius, however, picked up the tradition (reported in Greek historians in the fifth century BC) that Aeneas came to Italy and was the ‘founding father’ of the Roman race (though not of the city of Rome). This suited Romans well: Aeneas linked Rome with the gods and myths of early Greek epic, especiallyHomer – a sort of Roman passport to civilisation – and since hewas the son of Venus, he was also the distant ancestor of the first emperor Augustus, who presented himself as the second founder of Rome after the horrors of the civil wars and collapse of the Republic at the end of the first century BC.

    Aeneas, however, did bring with him a slight technical problem.While the Greek geographer Eratosthenes had dated the fall of Troy to 1184 BC, Roman tradition had it that Romulus and Remus founded Rome in 753 BC. But myth was ever flexible. Later juggling of dates resulted in the story of Aeneas settling down and dying in Lavinium south of Rome; his son Ascanius subsequently moving to Alba Longa; and over 300 years later, his descendants Romulus and Remus founding Rome itself.

    Section 3A(i)

    Jupiter decides to exclude the goddess Discordia from the wedding feast of Peleus and Thetis. This leads to a beauty contest on Mount Ida, judged by the Trojan Paris; and the result of this is that Paris abducts Greek Helen and starts the Trojan War.

    ubi Pēleus Thetin in mātrimōnium dūxit, Iuppiter ad epulās deōs plūrimōs conuocāuit, sed nōn Erida (id est, Discordiam). ea īrātissima in mālō aureō scrīpsit ‘fōrmōsissimae’. deinde ad iānuam uēnit et per eam id mālum mīsit in medium. et propter hoc mālum – malum minimum – maxima discordia Iūnōnī, Venerī, Mineruae fuit.

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