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Augustus Demands Respect, Rome’s Foundation Myths w/ The Partial Historians

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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The Romans and the Trojan War

A lot of weirdness in these stories. There's definitely some disturbing elements to these stories. Well, there's gods involved in both cases. That's a sort of a attempted assault. Mm hmm. But yeah, that's always a thing that has to do that to me about Rome and it's something that I feel like speaks to what Rome later became as well. This idea that the Romans presumably had this opportunity to make themselves, you know, born of the soil or have like really deep ties to the area of Rome or something like that. Instead they chose to make themselves up of people from the surrounding area. And so literally how they get women period.

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