In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta. The war is among the most important events in Greek mythology and was narrated in many works of Greek literature, including the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer. The Iliad relates a part of the last year of the siege of Troy, while the Odyssey describes the journey home of Odysseus, one of the Achaean leaders. Other parts of the war were told in a cycle of epic poems, which has only survived in fragments. Episodes from the war provided material for Greek tragedy and other works of Greek literature, and for Roman poets like Virgil and Ovid.
The war originated from a quarrel between the goddesses Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite, after Eris, the goddess of strife and discord, gave them a golden apple, sometimes known as the Apple of Discord, marked "for the fairest". Zeus sent the goddesses to Paris, who judged that Aphrodite, as the "fairest", should receive the apple. In exchange, Aphrodite made Helen, the most beautiful of all women and wife of Menelaus, fall in love with Paris, who took her to Troy. Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and the brother of Helen's husband Menelaus, led an expedition of Achaean troops to Troy and besieged the city for ten years because of Paris' insult. After the deaths of many heroes, including the Achaeans Achilles and Ajax, and the Trojans Hector and Paris, the city fell to the ruse of the Trojan Horse. The Achaeans slaughtered the Trojans (except for some of the women and children whom they kept or sold as slaves) and desecrated the temples, thus earning the gods' wrath. Few of the Achaeans returned safely to their homes and many founded colonies in distant shores. The Romans later traced their origin to Aeneas, one of the Trojans, who was said to have led the surviving Trojans to modern day Italy.
753 BCE Romulus founds Rome
Remus was captured and taken to Amulius, under the accusation of being a thief. Their identity was discovered. Romulus raised a band of shepherds to liberate his brother; Amulius was killed and Romulus and Remus were conjointly offered the crown. They refused it while their grandfather lived, and refused to live in the city as his subjects. They restored Numitor as king, paid due honours to their mother Rhea and left to found their own city, accompanied by a motley band of fugitives, runaway slaves, and any who want a second chance in a new city with new rulers.
The brothers argued over the best site for the new city. Romulus favoured the Palatine Hill; Remus wanted the Aventine Hill. They agreed to select the site by divine augury, took up position on their respective hills and prepared a sacred space; signs were sent to each in the form of vultures, or eagles. Remus saw six; Romulus saw twelve, and claimed superior augury as the basis of his right to decide.
Remus made a counterclaim: he saw his six vultures first. Romulus set to work with his supporters, digging a trench (or building a wall, according to Dionysius) around the Palatine to define his city boundary. Remus criticized some parts of the work and obstructed others. At last, Remus leaped across the boundary, as an insult to the city's defenses and their creator. For this, he was killed. The Roman ab urbe condita begins from the founding of the city, and places that date as 21 April 753 BC.
509 BCE Brutus leads revolution against Etruscans to form Roman Republic.
the founder of the Roman Republic and traditionally one of the first consuls in 509 BC. He was claimed as an ancestor of the Roman gens Junia, including Marcus Junius Brutus, the most famous of Caesar's assassins.
Aeneas- Mates with Lavinia, daughter or King Latinus
Amulias- who over throws numitor
Numitor- father of Romulus
Rhea Silvia- Vestal Virgin and Mother of Romulus
Romulus: Son of Rhea and Mars (god of war). Founder of Rome and murdered of brother
Remus: brother of Romulus
Dates:
• 1200 – 800 BCE; Trojan War
• 753/4 BCE: Romulus frond Rome
• 509 BCE: Brutus leads the romans in an over throw of the Etruscan kings -> founding of the Roman Republic
Definition
• Venus the goddess of beauty and love, mother to Aeneas
Aeneas marries the daughter of King Latinus ( the king of Latinum)
Aeneas and Lavina get married
Aeneas finds the city Lavinium and have a child named Ascanious
Some where along the line he has descendants named Amulius and Numitor
Amulius and Numitor are bothers but since Numitor is the oldest he becomes the king
Amulius kills his borther and makes his niece a vestal vergin
Rhea Silvia becomes a vestal virgin, so she has no hope of having children, and that means the Amulius becomes king
Rhea Silvia was raped by the god of war, Mars, and has two twin sons
Amulus find out and order that the twin brothers get cast in to a basket in the river
The brothers names are Romulus and Remus
While they are floating in the river a she-wolf happens to find them and treat them like they were her own
The Roman Republic
• Consuls
o 2 patrician males
o They serve one tearm
o Run senate meeting
o Lead armed Forces
• Praetors
o Chosen by the Comitia Centuria
o Run and decide court cases
o Logistics for the military
• Censors
o 2 patrician males
o Rut the census
o Sever a 2 year tearm
• Tribunes(471 BCE)
o Plebian males
o 3 tribunes
o they serve a three year term
o power to veto
• Senate
o 300 patrician males
o write and make laws
• Comitia Centuria
o Pick cousul members
o Made of all Roman Patrician males
o They are divided into centuries , that are divided by wealth
o Vote on laws
• Comitia Plebesita (471 BCE)
o All plebeian males
o They chose tribune members
o Debate laws
• Questors
o Made up of
o They handle the countries money issues
o They preside over capital cases (Judge, Jury, and lawyer)
• Dictators
o Used only in the time of war
o Chosen by the counsuls
• 6 month term
he has the power of life or death
• Patrician
o Highrer class of Roman citizen: upper, upper class
• Plebian
o Lower class of Roman citizens upper class
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