Woman may have founded ancient Rome

Telegraph (UK) ^ | 4/22/03 | Bruce Johnston

[scouse]

Woman may have founded ancient Rome
By Bruce Johnston in Rome
(Filed: 22/04/2003)

Rome celebrated its 2,756th birthday yesterday, amid claims that the city may have been founded by a Trojan woman called Roma and not, as legend has it, by Romulus.

According to Rome's Il Messaggero newspaper, a fragment of writing by the Graeco-Sicilian poet Stesichorus (638-555 BC) recounts how a woman named Roma arrived with a Trojan fleet in an idyllic place that could easily be Rome.

The scene was described as one of enchanting beauty, where before the setting sun the visitor was "enticed to dream while being caressed by the off-shore breeze".

Roma fell so in love with the spot that she conspired with the other women to burn all the ships, so that the party would have to stay. Once they were stranded, the group all agreed that they should name the place after her.

[scouse]

Solely for educational purposes. Story can be accesed at address shown.

[JennysCool]

Solely for educational purposes.

Politically-correct revisionist purposes, you mean. Whatta crock!

[Lazamataz]

Woman may have founded ancient Rome

Bovine Scatology.

She couldn't have done it, cuz she's just a girl.....

[conservonator]

Say it ain't so...

[Billthedrill]

Well, Virgil did claim that Carthage, not Rome, was a Trojan offshoot (The Aeniad). But Romulus and Remus were supposedly sons of Mars and a woman named Rhea Silvia. Mars, of course, denied the whole thing and demanded a DNA test...

[jimkress]

Aeneas founded Rome.

http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities/literature/world_literature/virgil.html

[Lee Heggy]

To anyone who knows Italian women it makes sense that Rome wasn't built in a day...it was built at night.

[AppyPappy]

I bet she asked for directions.

[RightWhale]

Sure, the wimmin got possessed by spirits and burned the ships. It was a rough trip for the Trojans, but they eventually got moved in.

[Interesting Times]

New scholarship also suggests Roma was an albino lesbian dwarf.

[Interesting Times]

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[Jhoffa_]

I bet you just inspired a tabloid article somewhere..

[epluribus_2]

you forgot vegetarian.

[ricpic]

Roma sounds like the first broad to force her hapless husband to put all his hard earned cash into some money pit out in the sticks. What choice did he have after that but to say he loved it, since there was no going back home except as a pauper.

[HitmanLV]

Roma fell so in love with the spot that she conspired with the other women to burn all the ships, so that the party would have to stay. Once they were stranded, the group all agreed that they should name the place after her.

For what it's worth, this rings true. That is to say, it sounds like every italian woman I have ever known.

Sincerely,

Vinnie

;-)

[JesusIsLord]

Beginning about 800 B. C. the Greeks established colonies in Italy, despite resistance from the Etruscans and from the Carthagenians (whose homeland was in North Africa) who also had a strong interest in colonizing the peninsula.

Roman tradition held that Rome was founded by Romulus in 753 B.C.; Greek authors four centuries before Christ identified the founder of Rome as Aeneas, a Trojan who led the survivors among his people to the area following their defeat in the Trojan War in 1184 B.C. Roman historians who followed tried to reconcile the conflicting stories by inventing (or adapting from old myths and legends) a series of fourteen kings who succeeded each other as rulers at Alba Longa after Aeneas and before Romulus. As Kevin Guinagh relates, these fourteen kings, " succeeded each other without incident until Amulius seized the power and banished his brother Numitor, the rightful king, killing the latter's male offspring and forcing his daughter, Rhea Silvia, into the perpetual virginity of a Vestal. However, she became the mother of twins, and though she gave out the story that the god Mars was their father, Amulius ordered her imprisoned and the children exposed to the elements. But the children, suckled by a she-wolf, were discovered and reared by a shepherd and his wife. On growing to young manhood, Romulus and Remus headed a group of comrades, slew the usurper, and restored their grandfather to power. Wishing to settle where he had grown up, Romulus left Alba Longa, founded by Ascanius, and built the city of Rome." Modern historians, of course, consider this early history to be fundamentally mythological rather than factual.

Re:
http://www.aug.edu/langlitcom/humanitiesHBK/handbook_htm/roman_history.htm

[ClearCase_guy]

"Hey, Roma! Thanks for taking it upon yourself to burn all our ships. Just because YOU like this place doesn't mean that we all want to live here for the rest of our lives! And maybe if you'd told us the plan, we could have unloaded our stuff from the boats. Everything I own just went up in flames because you wanted to burn the durn boats!

But I tell you what -- just to show there's no hard feelings, we're going to name the city after you."

[Jhoffa_]

Once they were stranded, the group all agreed that they should name the place after her.

PS: I have trouble with this.

I can imagine a shallow grave named after her, following such a stunt.

"You burned our ships and now we're stranded? No problem.. We're so tickled about this development we will just name a whole city after you, waddya say Roma?"

[Interesting Times]

you forgot vegetarian.

Right. Make that a vegan albino lesbian dwarf.

[Jhoffa_]

Wow.. Yue red mah mind!

You'se one of them there, "psycho's" Ain't ya?