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Minors are suggested to get out from this blog due to sensitive issues and graphic contents.The aim of this blog is to inform and educate readers about current events, history and recent happenings around the world. Romulus was the legendary founder of Rome. The legends deal with the power of morality and politics. He saved the woman by flooding the way to her with a volcanic hot spring which buried all the kidnappers under the ash and boiling water. Historians do not take her story as a myth but as an actual incident that left an imprint on the old world forever. Rome is a porous city. STORIES FROM THE HISTORY OF ROME Now, there had been a great deal of rain, and the Tiber had overflowed its banks, so that the men could not put the children in the deep part of the river, but only at the edge, where the water was shallow. J. C. McKeown, author of A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World’s Greatest Empire, is Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She chose the young Roman men so that the war could be continued. Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Romulus saw 12 auspicious birds and claimed a win as Remus only saw six. A Tall Tale - The Baby Mercury (cartoon presentation in PowerPoint format) Famous for his incredible strength, Hercules was adapted by the Romans from a piece of art from Greek mythology. One of them was young Cloelia who fled the hostage camps leading a group of Roman virgins. In the Aeneid, Virgil describes him as a hero and the ancestor of Romulus and Remus. Check out this bookhttp://free-audio-books.info/the-new-book-of-this-channel/2789/Stories of Old Greece and Rome - audiobookEmilie Kip BAKER (? The priestess Io was one of the mortal lovers of Jupiter who was known for his Casanova-like behavior. These have been represented in works of art and literature, with Ovid as the master of giving these Latin myths and legends a physical form. Delighted by the taste of it, Jupiter promised to fulfil one of her wishes. He has been a prominent figure in later Western art and literature as well. As a result, people began to consider her a liar and a mad woman, and she was imprisoned in a citadel by her own father. The very moment Juno arrived on Earth, Jupiter changed Io into a white cow so as to protect her from his wife’s wrath. According to Roman myth, anyone who dies has to travel to the underworld. This team was called the Aeneads. Photo by Jo Winston. After the war between Clusium and Rome came to an end because of a peace treaty in 508 BC, the Etruscan king, Lars Porsena, took Roman hostages. God of love, beauty, etc Aeneads then returned to Sicily and Aeneas made final! 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