Napoleon 1799: a brief history.

 

On the founding of "the eternal metropolis"

 World History Encyclopedia

According to legend, Ancient Rome was founded by the two brothers, and demigods, Romulus and Remus, on 21 April 753 BCE. The legend claims that in an argument over who would rule the city (or, in another version, where the city would be located) Romulus killed Remus and named the city after himself. This story of the founding of Rome is the best known but it is not the only one.

Other legends claim the city was named after a woman, Roma, who traveled with Aeneas and the other survivors from Troy after that city fell. Upon landing on the banks of the Tiber River, Roma and the other women objected when the men wanted to move on. She led the women in the burning of the Trojan ships and so effectively stranded the Trojan survivors at the site which would eventually become Rome. Aeneas of Troy is featured in this legend and also, famously, in Virgil's Aeneid, as a founder of Rome and the ancestor of Romulus and Remus, thus linking Rome with the grandeur and might which was once Troy.Still other theories concerning the name of the famous city suggest it came from Rumon, the ancient name for the Tiber River, and was simply a place name given to the small trading center established on its banks or that the name derived from an Etruscan word which could have designated one of their settlements.

The congress of Vienna 1814 :a brief history.

 

On Christendom and colonialism in South Africa.

 

On protestant Christendom's consorting with the NAZIs

 

Pope Pius XII Was Hitler's Pope?: pros and cons.

 

Yet more on Christendom's consorting with the NAZI regime.

 

The shameful record of christendom in NAZI Germany.

 

Yet more re:JEHOVAH'S Witnesses resisting the NAZI Juggernaut.

 

Leonid Brezhnev : a brief history.

 

The (re)birth(?) of Greece.