Desiccation and Fake Grief: The Strange Case of the Lacus Curtius
The story of the Sabine knight Curtius, whose death appeased the angry gods who had flooded the Forum Romanum, is the shadow double of the more popular foundation tale of Romulus’s fratricidal construction of city walls. Combined, the two accounts show how cities of the living began as cities of the...
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University of Bologna
2018-07-01
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| Online Access: | https://in_bo.unibo.it/article/view/7851 |