Dido and Aeneas

Virgil, Aeneid (1st. century A.D.)
Aeneas, son of Dardanus and Aphrodite
Hector, son of Priam
Laocoön, priest of Poseidon
Priam, king of Troy
Pyrrhus, son of Achilles

Aphrodite/Venus
Juno/Hera
Athena/Minerva
Hermes/Mercury

Phoenicians
Tyre, Sidon
Carthage
Dido

Rome, 753 B.C.
Romulus and Remus
Sabines
Etruscans
509 B.C. revolt/revolution

link to chronology and course of offices

paterfamilias

Patrician
Pleb

patron
client

Economic / Social classes

• proletarii
• assidui
• millionaires

Others will cast more tenderly in bronze
Their breathing figures, I can well believe,
And bring more lifelike protraits out of marble;
Argue more eloquently, use the pointer
To trace the paths of heaven accurately
And accurately foretell the rising stars.
Roman, remember by your strength to rule
Earth's peoples - for your arts are to be these:
To pacify, to impose the rule of law,
To spare the conquered, battle down the proud.
                              --Virgil, Aeneid, 6.1145-54