Documentary: "So Great was the Burden of Founding Rome"

[Lorenzo]

Looking at the history of Rome through the lens of the Aeneid, its great epic of national identity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L3PlVnCIEw&feature=channel_page

[Lorenzo]

Virgil said, "All triumphs rise from tragedies."

~Tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem!~

(So great was the burden of Founding Rome)

[Lorenzo]

The beginning:

Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris
Italiam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit
litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto
vi superum saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram;
multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem,             
inferretque deos Latio, genus unde Latinum,
Albanique patres, atque altae moenia Romae.