{"id":3780,"date":"2015-04-22T14:48:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T14:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/?p=3780"},"modified":"2015-04-22T14:48:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T14:48:36","slug":"happy-2768th-birthday-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/happy-2768th-birthday-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 2,768th Birthday Rome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of the\u00a0<em>Natale di Roma\u00a0<\/em>(the annual birthday celebration of Rome), this post will include 10 factoids about Rome and its founding!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Founding of Rome\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r19fzzmXxos?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>1. The date April 21st\u00a0\u00a0based on the legendary foundation of Rome by Romulus in 753 BC.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2621\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/09\/She-wolf_suckles_Romulus_and_Remus.jpg\" aria-label=\"She Wolf Suckles Romulus And Remus 300x225\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2621\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2621\"  alt=\"Capitoline Wolf suckles the infant twins Romulus and Remus.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/09\/She-wolf_suckles_Romulus_and_Remus-300x225.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capitoline Wolf suckles the infant twins Romulus and Remus.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>2.\u00a0The name of the city is generally considered to refer to Romulus, but there are other hypotheses. Jean-Jacques Rousseau suggested Greek &#8220;\u1fe5\u03ce\u03bc\u03b7&#8221; (&#8220;<i>rh\u014dm\u0113<\/i>&#8220;), meaning &#8220;strength, vigor&#8221;.\u00a0Another hypothesis refers the name to Roma, who supposedly was the daughter of Aeneas or Evander.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2989\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/03\/300px-Sir_Nathaniel_Dance-Holland_-_The_Meeting_of_Dido_and_Aeneas_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\" aria-label=\"300px Sir Nathaniel Dance Holland   The Meeting Of Dido And Aeneas   Google Art Project\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2989\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2989\"  alt=\"The Meeting of Dido and Aeneas by Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/03\/300px-Sir_Nathaniel_Dance-Holland_-_The_Meeting_of_Dido_and_Aeneas_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Meeting of Dido and Aeneas by Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland<\/p><\/div>\n<p>3.\u00a0The 21st of April was celebrated by the ancient Romans as Parilia or Palilia. It was a festival for Pales with ritual purification for sheep and shepherds. Ashes from the fordidicia were sprinkled on the sulfur-burning bonfire created for the cleansing. This date was also considered the <i>dies natalis<\/i> or &#8216;birthday&#8217; of Rome.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3781\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/04\/Suv\u00e9e_Festa_di_Pales.jpg\" aria-label=\"Suv\u00e9e Festa Di Pales 300x297\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3781\" class=\"wp-image-3781 size-medium\"  alt=\"Suv\u00e9e_Festa_di_Pales\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/04\/Suv\u00e9e_Festa_di_Pales-300x297.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Festa di Pales, o L&#8217;estate (1783), a reimagining of the Festival of Pales by Joseph-Beno\u00eet Suv\u00e9e. Courtesy of WikiCommons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>4. Ovid wrote in detail of the rites for Parilia in Fasti 4.721:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8220;<em>Nox abiit, oriturque aurora: Parilia poscor;<br \/>\nnon poscor frustra, si favet alma Pales.<br \/>\nalma Pales, faveas pastoria sacra canenti,<br \/>\nprosequor officio si tua festa meo.<br \/>\ncerte ego de vitulo cinerem stipulasque fabales<br \/>\nsaepe tuli plena, februa tosta, manu;<br \/>\ncerte ego transilui positas ter in ordine flammas,<br \/>\nudaque roratas laurea misit aquas<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8220;The night has gone: dawn breaks. I\u2019m called upon to sing<br \/>\nOf the Parilia, and not in vain if kindly Pales aids me.<br \/>\nKindly Pales, if I respect your festival,<br \/>\nThen aid me as I sing of pastoral rites.<br \/>\nIndeed, I\u2019ve often brought ashes of a calf, and stalks<br \/>\nOf beans, in chaste purification, in my full hands:<br \/>\nIndeed, I\u2019ve leapt the threefold line of flames,<br \/>\nAnd the wet laurel\u2019s sprinkled me with dew.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Ovid connects the Parilia with the birth of Rome by suggesting, among other options, that the fire of the Parilia is like the fire burning Troy that Aeneas escaped.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">5. Rome celebrates with free museum admissions and a procession with actors! There is gorgeous gallery with Getty Images that you can view<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/search\/2\/image?phrase=%202,766th%20anniversary%20of%20the%20founding%20of%20Rome&amp;family=creative&amp;sort=best&amp;editorialproducts=&amp;excludenudity=true&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/04\/Suv\u00e9e_Festa_di_Pales-350x346.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/04\/Suv\u00e9e_Festa_di_Pales-350x346.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/04\/Suv\u00e9e_Festa_di_Pales.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>In honor of the\u00a0Natale di Roma\u00a0(the annual birthday celebration of Rome), this post will include 10 factoids about Rome and its founding! 1. The date April 21st\u00a0\u00a0based on the legendary foundation of Rome by Romulus in 753 BC. 2.\u00a0The name of the city is generally considered to refer to Romulus, but there are other hypotheses&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/happy-2768th-birthday-rome\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[60854],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-roman-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3782,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions\/3782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}