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To: Donald Meaker; Claud
So was this before, or after Aeneas came from Troy? Who knows, it may even be Latvinia, his (second, Italian) wife.

Only if you don't think Lavinia was buried in Lavinium or Alba Longa, which were the chief Trojan/Latin cities at the time (if you believe the legends).

Wasn't much going on at the site of Rome at that time, I don't think.
22 posted on 05/30/2006 9:23:10 PM PDT by Antoninus (Ginty for US Senate -- NJ's primary day is June 6 -- www.gintyforsenate.org)
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To: Antoninus; Donald Meaker
So was this before, or after Aeneas came from Troy? Who knows, it may even be Latvinia, his (second, Italian) wife.

About 200 years after, if you go by the chronology of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, who dated the landing of Aeneas at 1183 B.C. Antoninus is right--there wasn't much going on at Rome at the time--Alba Longa was the real political center of Latium. But there are a few indications even in legend that there was some settling in Rome prior to Romulus and Remus.

Interesting find though; this period in Italian history is notoriously dim.

24 posted on 06/01/2006 7:35:48 AM PDT by Claud
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