Subscribers, if they are not aware of it already, may be interested in knowing that, according to Rome's Il Messaggero newspaper, a fragment of writing by the Graeco-Sicilian poet Stesichorus (638-555 BC) recounts how a woman named Roma arrived with a Trojan fleet in an idyllic place that could easily be Rome, burnt her boats and founded the eponymous city there.
The story is here: http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/22/wrome22 .xml&sSheet=/news/2003/04/22/ixworld.html (Don't forget to join the two bits of the link together) One wonders if Virgil was aware of this alternative version of the founding of Rome. Patrick Roper ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
