The Aeneid (2003)
The Aeneid
“Around the outside of the circle are six scenes described in forty-one lines: (i) The wolf suckling Romulus and Remus, who are to found the city in 753 BC.
(ii) The rape of the Sabine women as planned by Romulus and the subsequent war and reconciliation.
(iii) The punishment of Mettus Fufetius, dictator of Alba Longa who will make a treaty with Tullus Hostilius, king of Rome 673–642 BC, and then desert him in battle.
(iv) Two famous scenes from the Etruscan attack on Rome in 508 BC.
(v) At the ...top of the shield the attack of the Gauls in 390 BC and the origin of some traditional features of Roman religion. The matrons of Rome were permitted to drive in carriages to the games and temples in return for giving their gold and jewels to enable Camillus to build a temple to Apollo after the defeat of Veii in 396 BC.
(vi) Presumably at the bottom of the shield, scenes in the Underworld showing Catiline whose conspiracy was put down by Cicero in 63 BC and M. Porcius Cato who fought for the Republican cause against Caesar and committed suicide after his defeat at Thapsus in 46 BC.MoreLess
(ii) The rape of the Sabine women as planned by Romulus and the subsequent war and reconciliation.
(iii) The punishment of Mettus Fufetius, dictator of Alba Longa who will make a treaty with Tullus Hostilius, king of Rome 673–642 BC, and then desert him in battle.
(iv) Two famous scenes from the Etruscan attack on Rome in 508 BC.
(v) At the ...top of the shield the attack of the Gauls in 390 BC and the origin of some traditional features of Roman religion. The matrons of Rome were permitted to drive in carriages to the games and temples in return for giving their gold and jewels to enable Camillus to build a temple to Apollo after the defeat of Veii in 396 BC.
(vi) Presumably at the bottom of the shield, scenes in the Underworld showing Catiline whose conspiracy was put down by Cicero in 63 BC and M. Porcius Cato who fought for the Republican cause against Caesar and committed suicide after his defeat at Thapsus in 46 BC.MoreLess
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