The founder of Rome, hidden inside a metaphor

The foundation of Rome is a historical mystery surrounded in metaphors, legends, and mythology. So much so that Ancient Roman historians narrate these events as legends. The most accepted tale begins with Aeneas sailing the Mediterranean to what today is Italy, after it was foretold that in Italy “he will give rise to a race both noble and courageous”, as Virgil narrates in the Aeneid. Virgil’s work, one of the most notable poetic works in Latin, focuses primarily on Aeneas’ adventures, similar to a Homeric epic, and his resettling of the Trojan people after the war. We will have to skip a few hundred years, since the Trojan War is believed to have happened 1260–1180 BC. <a href="https://medium.com/shapeless/the-founder-of-rome-hidden-inside-a-metaphor-fbd00a60a172">Read More</a>