Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Summary of primary source- "Livy's history of Rome" book 1.1-1.8

This article is about the defeat of the Trojans, and their life afterwards. They now needed a new permanent home, because their city had been massacred. They combined forces with the Enetians, who were also looking for a new permanent home. Aeneas was the leader of this group, and they landed in someone else's territory, named Latinus. After Latinus had heard their story, he  accepted them into his village and allowed them to build their own town. They were overjoyed because they had found a new home. Latinus also gave his daughter's hand in marriage to Aeneas. This sparked a war, because Turnus, the King of the Rutulians had been betrothed to Latinus' daughter. The Trojans and the Aborigines won, but Latinus was killed in battle. They thought that they needed more allies, so they turned to the Etruscans. The story goes on, life continues, countries and boundaries develop, peace is created, amount of power is decided, and basically the world is changing or being formed.

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