59

IV. THE DESTRUCTION OF TROY 79

V. THE FLIGHT OF AENEAS 103

VI. THE LANDING IN LATIUM 131

VII. RHEA SILVIA 155

VIII. THE TWINS 179

IX. THE FOUNDING OF ROME 202

X. ORGANIZATION 225

XI. WIVES 248

XII. THE SABINE WAR 270

XIII. THE CONCLUSION 295

ENGRAVINGS.

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THE HARPIES _Frontispiece._

JUPITER AND EUROPA 28

MAP--JOURNEYINGS OF CADMUS 30

SYMBOLICAL WRITING 37

SYMBOLICAL AND PHONETIC WRITING 44

HIEROGLYPHICS 56

MAP--ORIGIN OF VENUS 61

AENEAS DEFENDING THE BODY OF PANDARUS 68

THE TORTOISE 98

HELEN 105

MAP--WANDERINGS OF AENEAS 119

MAP--LATIUM 134

SILVIA'S STAG 145

RHEA SILVIA 180

FAUSTULUS AND THE TWINS 184

SITUATION OF ROME 209

PROMISING THE BRACELETS 284

THE DEATH OF ROMULUS 305

ROMULUS

CHAPTER I.

CADMUS.

B.C. 1500

Different kinds of greatness.--Founders of cities.--Rome.--Interest
in respect to its origin.--The story of AEneas.--The Mediterranean
sea.--Italy and Greece in ancient times, and now.--Ancient
chieftains.--Their modes of life.--Religious ideas of the ancient
Greeks and Romans.--Ancient studies of nature.--Purpose of
them.--History.--Ancient poems and tales.--How far founded
in fact.--Cadmus.--Interest felt in respect to the
origin of writing.--True s