Romulus, Makers of History

PREFACE.

In writing the series of historical narratives to which the present work pertains, it has been the object of the author to furnish to the reading community of this country an accurate and faithful account of the lives and actions of the several personages that are made successively the subjects of the volumes, following precisely the story which has come down to us from ancient times. The writer has spared no pains to gain access in all cases to the original sources of information, and has confined himself strictly to them. The reader may, therefore, feel assured in perusing any one of these works, that the interest of it is in no degree indebted to the invention of the author. No incident, however trivial, is ever added to the original account, nor are any words even, in any case, attributed to a speaker without express authority. Whatever of interest, therefore, these stories may possess, is due solely to the facts themselves which are recorded in them, and to their being brought together in a plain, simple, and connected narrative.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. CADMUS 13

II. CADMUS'S LETTERS 36

III. THE STORY OF ÆNEAS 59

IV. THE DESTRUCTION OF TROY 79

V. THE FLIGHT OF ÆNEAS 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

ÆNEAS DEFENDING THE BODY OF PANDARUS 68

THE TORTOISE 98

HELEN 105

MAP-WANDERINGS OF ÆNEAS 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