Classical mythology the Romans
Rome grew from a tiny community of small hill villages near the River Tiber in central Italy to one of the most powerful empires the world has seen. By the middle of the second century CE, Rome had a population of 1.5 million; Alexandria, in Egypt, 500,000; and Londinium, in Briton, 30,000. How was...
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Table of Contents:
- Lecture 1. Mythological Rome
- Lecture 2. The making of myth: how the Romans recorded their mythology
- Lecture 3. Greek myths and the Romans: Cacus, Hercules, and the Greeks in Italy
- Lecture 4. Arcadian fantasies: the fathers of the founders
- Lecture 5. Trojan ancestors: the myth of Aeneas
- Lecture 6. Romulus and Remus
- Lecture 7. The seven kings of Rome
- Lecture 8. Etruscan kings in Rome: myth or history?
- Lecture 9. Myths of the Republic
- Lecture 10. Myths of Roman expansion
- Lecture 11. Virgil and the Aeneid (part one)
- Lecture 12. The Aeneid (part two)
- Lecture 13. Ovid
- Lecture 14. The survival of classical myth.
