HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Question
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Roman senators rebel against the loss of liberty under Augustus
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Roman women conspire to show men the folly of war.
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A hero leaves the fighting at Troy to return to his faithful wife
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A hero escapes from the city of Troy to found Rome
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Aeneid (written c. 29–19 bce) tells in 12 books of the legendary foundation of Lavinium (parent town of Alba Longa and of Rome) by Aeneas. When Troy fell to the Greeks, Virgil recounts, Aeneas, who had fought bravely to the last, was commanded by Hector in a vision to flee and to found a great city overseas.
Detailed explanation-2: -Aeneas continues relating his story: nearly overcome with grief over this slaughter, he sees Helen, the cause of the war, hiding. He determines to kill her, but Venus appears and explains that blame for the war belongs with the gods, not Helen. Venus advises Aeneas to flee Troy at once, since his fate is elsewhere.
Detailed explanation-3: -268-97 The ghost of Hector appears to Aeneas, and tells him that he must escape from Troy, taking with him Troy’s sacred emblems and the Penates (household gods).
Detailed explanation-4: -The Aeneid is about his journey from Troy to Italy, which enables him to fulfill his fate. The queen of Carthage, a city in northern Africa, in what is now Tunisia, and lover of Aeneas. Dido left the land of Tyre when her husband was murdered by Pygmalion, her brother.