The foundation of Rome
Channel: BH Audiobooks
Date: 2022-03-10

Author
Barthold  Georg Niebuhr

Rome occupies a unique position in the history of the world. The
whole Mediterranean basin was at one time merely a Roman lake, and
the adjacent countries were Roman in letters, law, religion and the prac tice of war. Roman roads crossed the continents east and west and
penetrated to the depths of Asia and Africa . Roman garrisons were stationed in every important city of the provinces, and when the great city on the banks of the Tiber at last fell before successive irruptions of northeasterly barbarians and Roman power was at its extreme ebb, the spirit of Roman institutions still survived in the civilization of Spain,
France, Italy, Britain , even in Greece and Asia. Roman law had be come the code of the world . Iberian , Gaul, and Italian had modified in
varying degree their native dialects in conformity with the more copious and logical idiom of Latium.
A group of legends gathers round the birthplace of the Eternal City.
It is Æneas who escapes from Troy and brings into the land of Italian Latinus his native gods. His son Ascanius conquers and slays Mezen tius in a battle between Latins and Etruscans, and eleven kings of Alba,
all surnamed Silvius, succeeded him on the throne. The last king of Alba Longa is Procas, whose usurping son Amulius drives his eldest brother Numitor from the throne. Numitor's daughter, Silvia , becomes the mother of the immortal twins Romulus and Remus, by Mamers, the god of war ; the children are expose by cruel Amulius, suckled by a wolf, such become founders of Rome.

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