Ancient Rome I - The Founding of Rome

This is the first of many chapters in History with a Twist of Lime's look on "The Historical History of Ancient Rome." This chapter deals with the legendary founding of the city of Rome, from the journey of Aeneas from Troy, to the consummation of the virgin Rhea Silvia by the god Mars, the birth and uprising of Romulus and Remus, their epic fight over the one to rule the new city, the raping of the Sabine women, and the crowning of Romulus as the first King of Rome. The chapter concludes with a discussion over how untrue all the aforementioned crap really is, and the fallibilities of our knowledge over the Roman origins and early kingdom.

As this is one of many chapters being produced over this project, I would invite you to watch the other chapters dealing with the history of Ancient Rome. They can be viewed seamlessly under this playlist on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtseWnNmHqg&feature=PlayList&p=AF3D846...

References:

Kidney, Frank L., et al. "Making Europe: People, Politics, and Culture." Vol. 1. Houghton Mifflin, 2009.

Livius, Titus. "Ab Urbe Condita" (literally translated as "From the City Having Been Founded", but commonly known as "The History of Rome"). Composed: 1st century B.C.

Mackey, Christopher S. "Ancient Rome: A Military and Political History." Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Owen, Francis. "The Germanic People: Their Origin, Expansion, and Culture." Barnes Noble, 1960.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Ancient
• Rome
• Founding
• Romulus
• Remus
• Numitor
• Amulius
• Albalonga
• Latins
• Sabines

[Harpenboper]

Educational and entertaining, thankyou

[mxl6986]

The joke should have gone that his heart grew "three sizes that day", but still very funny.

[Draconoxis]

A nice and funny history lesson, good job! :)

[Nitnelav1994]

lol yea

[ArchhereticK]

that was brillo.

[lookatmyschooner]

Oh...my...god. I lost it at the Grinch.