The Famous She-Wolf

For those who don't know the history of Rome, Mars was said to have fathered a set of twins, Romulus and Remus, who were abandoned, or rather hidden, and the She-Wolf nursed them. Romulus of course, is the founder of Rome.

The Constant Search for Shade

September 16th 2005
The first week of classes was basically a week’s worth of walking and sightseeing (as I’m sure most weeks will be, now that class has really started…but at least I’m getting a little Mediterranean sun!). Monday was my first humanity’s class - Urbs Aterna: Rome in Literature. We discussed Livy’s “The Early History of Rome”. This summer, I was kinda bothered that I had to read so ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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