The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Arthur Gilman
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ONCE UPON A TIME The old king at Troy--Paris, the wayward youth--Helen carried off--The war of ten years--Æneas, son of Anchises, goes to Italy--His death-- Fact and fiction in early stories--How Milton wrote about early England--How Æneas was connected with England--Virgil writes about Æneas--How Livy wrote about Æneas--Was Æneas a son of Venus?--Italy, as Æneas would have seen it--Greeks in Italy--How Evander came from Arcadia--How Æneas died--Thirty cities rise--Twins and a she-wolf-- Trojan names in Italy--How the Romans named their children and themselves. II. HOW THE SHEPHERDS BEGAN THE CITY Augury resorted to--Romulus and Remus on two hills--Vultures determine a question--Pales, god of the shepherds--Beginning the city--Celer killed--An asylum--Bachelors want wives--A game of wife-snatching-- Sabines wish their daughters back--Tarpeia on the hill--A duel between two hills--Two men named Curtius--Women interfere for peace--Where did Romulus go?--Society divided by Romulus--Numa Pompilius chosen king-- Laws of religion given the people--Guilds established--The year divided into months--Tullus Hostilius king--Six brothers fight--Horatia killed --Ancus Martius king--The wooden bridge. III. |
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