Arve podcast listeners, a quick notice before we get started today.

This episode of Emperors of Rome was recorded as a live podcast on the 21st of April 2021

to celebrate Rome's birthday.

This is why partway through the episode, you'll be hearing a couple of questions from the

audience that had tuned in.

Happy birthday, Rome, and we hope you enjoy it.

Arve, and welcome to Emperors of Rome, a Roman history podcast from La Trove University.

I'm your host, Matt Smith, and with me today is Associate Professor Ian in Evans, head

at the Department of Languages and Linguistics at La Trove University.

This is episode C-L-X-I-I, Foundations of Rome.

Rome dates its beginnings to the 21st of April, 753 BCE, when legend has it that it was

founded by the twins Romulus and Remus.

While not the only myth connected to this event, it has been the most enduring and commemorating

it has become an important event in the Roman calendar.

Here's Rianne Evans.

Foundation of Rome does refer to building the physical foundation, so putting rocks in

the ground, the archaeology that we can still find potentially, and there are depictions

of this on important buildings that we still have reliefs of.

They think that, you know, ever practical, I know that's a cliche, it's not about making

a decision to go build a new city, it's actually about laying out the groundwork for that

city.

It's an indication of how important the boundaries of that city were to them, you know,

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