Roma ( lat. Roma ) - in ancient Greek mythology, the heroine, by whose name Rome is named. The story about it is conveyed mainly by Greek authors, and he did not gain a foothold in the later tradition. According to the writer Klinius, Roma is the daughter of Telemachus and the wife of Aeneas . According to another version, Latina 's sister, the daughter of Odysseus and Kirk . According to third authors, the soothsayer. According to Heraclides, a noble Trojan captive [1] .
According to historians Gellanic and Damast, Roma is one of the Trojans that persuaded them to burn ships [2] . According to the historian Callius, this is a Trojan that married Latina , the mother of Roma , Romulus and Telegon , who founded Rome [3] . According to the versions cited by Plutarch, Roma is the daughter of the Trojan captive of Roma, the wife of Latina (the son of Telemachus), the mother of Romulus [4] ; either the daughter of Italy and Leucaria (or Teleus), who married Aeneas or Askania [4] . All these options convey the diversity of ideas about the origin of the Roman people that existed in ancient times. See also Romulus .
Notes
- ↑ Servius. Commentary on the Aeneid of Virgil I 273
- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Roman antiquities I 72, 2; Plutarch. Romulus 1; On the valor of women 1; Polyan. Strategies VIII 25, 2
- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Roman antiquities I 72, 5
- ↑ 1 2 Plutarch. Romulus 2