| Dates | Hellenes, Achaians [sc. Greeks] | Trojans | Romans |
| ca??? | Gaia + Ouranos:
Kronos, Prometheus: Zeus & Hera |
Tellus+Caelum:
Saturn, Promethus: Jupiter & Juno |
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| c'a 1300 BCE? | Knossos: Minos, click here Labyrinth, Daedalus | Tros, Dandanus Anchises, Priam |
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| ca 1200 BCE | [War at Troy: Achilles, Menelaus (without Helen), Odysseus] | [Hector, Paris & Helen, Aeneas & Aphrodite (Venus) his mother] | |
| Sequels to War at Troy | Odysseus travels to get home to Ithaca (Greece) | Aeneas travels to get new home (in Italy, before Rome), meets Dido (founder of Carthage) | |
| 776 BCE | first Olympic games | ||
| ca 750 BCE | Alphabet
from East;
Homer's epics: Iliad [story of Ilion = Troy] Odyssey < Odysseus' journey home to wife Penelopge & son Telemachus |
Rome
founded: Romulus & Remus
[More on Early Rome here] Population increased by Asylum for men & Rape of Sabine Women to get wives |
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| ca 650 | Sappho (Lesbos) cites Helen & Aphrodite | ||
| Aeschylus (525/4-456): Promethus Bound | Monarchy gives way to oligarchy [Republic]: Brutus | ||
| ca 250-150 | Fierce struggle with Carthage (Punic, that is, Phoenician, Wars) | ||
| ca 50 | Catullus & Julius Caesar | ||
| 31 BCE | Battle at Actium: Caesar (Augustus) vs Marc Antony & Cleopatra | ||
| Virgil 70-19 BCE: | Aeneidtells about Trojan hero Aeneas: his home city destroyed, he travels seeking a new home, meets Dido, goes on to fight to settle in Italy. | Virgil writing Aeneid ca 25 BCE |
In class we pointed out that both
Greeks & Romans looked back to stories of the Greeks' campaign against
Troy; but the Romans identified with the enemies of the Greeks, the losing
Trojan side.
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