Livy said Rhea Silvia, mother of Romulus and Remus, was a Vestal Virgin, who was assaulted by Mars. It’s said by different authors that Aeneas has two descendants, Romulus and Remus. He arrives on the Sicilian shoreline and soon engages in battle with Turnus and his army. Juno, the goddess, tries to thwart him partially due to his dalliance with Queen Dido - the queen of Juno’s patron city Carthage. Exiled from Troy when the Hellenes pillaged and destroyed the city, Aeneas launches a voyage with his fleet to find a home. In Virgil’s “Aeneid” - a national epic poem sometimes considered propaganda, other times considered subversive - Virgil details the journey and war of the hero Aeneas. ab urbe condita or “from the founding of the city.” The legendary origins of the city are recounted by authors like Livy and Virgil. Roman authors often dated important events using this date as a vantage point using the acronym A.U.C. On April 21, 753 B.C.E., Rome was founded, or so the myth goes. On the anniversary of Rome, here’s a brief look back at the founding of Rome, its transition from monarchy to republic, the fall of the republic, the fall of the empire and the inventions of Rome. Once the capital of a sprawling empire, Rome’s cultural history has influenced the world in several different ways. German author and poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe once said about Rome, “Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.” The city has a complex and rich history behind it.
The six-volume Everyman edition - the only complete one now available-prints the entire text of the book with all Gibbon's own notes, later editorial commentaries, maps, tables, descriptive tables of contents, indices, appendices and two magisterial essays on the author and his work by Hugh Trevor-Roper.Friday is the anniversary of the founding of Rome. What is more, it remains wonderfully readable: witty, elegant and intriguing, full of the author's own personality. This year is the bicentenary of Gibbon's death, which has been widely noticed in the press, but even after two hundred years his book is still an authoritative work on Roman history. Volumes 4-6 complete the set which is now available for the first time in many years. The first three volumes of Gibbon's DECLINE AND FALL (the western empire) were published by Everyman in 1993.
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