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"But my lord, there are no such legions!" Classical Antiquity (~100 BCE) (media.piefed.social)
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[–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Why did they see themselves as a city of exiles?

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    One of the Roman founding myths is that Romulus and Remus were descended from Aeneas of Troy, who fled the sacking of the city and eventually settled in Latium.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Virgil wrote the Aeneid just after the end of the Roman Republic though, under Augustus. Don't know what the Republic proper thought about themselves on the subject. How well known was that myth before him?

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