I. The Founding of Rome (2 pts. each answer = 50 pts.)

1. What Roman historian admitted that his account of the founding of Rome was based more on poetic tales than on history? ________________________________________________
2. To what Trojan hero did the Romans trace their ancestry?
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3. What was the traditional date of the fall of Troy?
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4. With whom did Aeneas travel through the Underworld?
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5. What did Aeneas learn from the ghost of his father, Anchises?
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6. What did Aeneas do in Latium?
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7. Why did Turnus make war against Aeneas?
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8. Who was Ascanius? _________________________________________
   
9. By what other name was he known?___________________________
   
10. What city did Ascanius establish? _________________________
    
11. Who began the Silvian dynasty? ____________________________
    
12. Why was Rhea Silvia appointed as a priestess of Vesta?
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13. Vesta was the goddess of _______________________ .
14. Who were Rhea Silvia's and Mars' children? (2 names)__________________
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15. Who/what found the children first? ________________________
    
16. Who raised the children as their own sons?__________________
    
17. Who was their grandfather?__________________________________
    
18. How did they help him?______________________________________
    
19. When taking the augury, Remus stood on the _________________
    
20. Hill and saw the first omen which was _____________________.
    
21. Romulus stood on the _____________ Hill
    
22. and saw ____________.
    
23. Romulus founded Rome on the _________ Hill.
    
24. What is the legendary year of the Founding of Rome? ______________
    
25. On what river was the new city founded? _____________________