Romulus: Makers of History

in the Clerk's Office for the Southern District of New York. Copyright, 1880, by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott , Austin Abbott , Lyman Abbott , and Edward Abbott . The Harpies. PREFACE In writing the series of historical narratives to which the present work pertains, it has been the object of the author to furnish to the reading community of this country an accurate and faithful account of the lives and actions of the several personages that are made successively the subjects of the volumes, following precisely the story which has come down to us from ancient times. The writer has spared no pains to gain access in all cases to the original sources of information, and has confined himself strictly to them. The reader may, therefore, feel assured in perusing any one of these works, that the interest of it is in no degree indebted to the invention of the author. No incident, however trivial, is ever added to the original account, nor are any words even, in any case, attributed to a speaker without express authority. Whatever of interest, therefore, these stories may possess, is due solely to the facts themselves which are recorded in them, and to their being brought together in a plain, simple, and connected narrative. CONTENTS. PAGE I. CADMUS 13 II. CADMUS'S LETTERS 36 III. THE STORY OF ÆNEAS 59 IV. THE DESTRUCTION OF TROY 79 V. THE FLIGHT OF ÆNEAS 103 VI. THE LANDING IN LATIUM 131 VII. RHEA SILVIA 155 VIII. THE TWINS 179 IX. THE FOUNDING OF ROME 202 X. ORGANIZATION 225 XI. WIVES 248 XII. THE SABINE WAR 270 XIII. THE CONCLUSION 295 ENGRAVINGS. PAGE THE HARPIES Frontispiece. JUPITER AND EUROPA 27 MAP—JOURNEYINGS OF CADMUS 30 SYMBOLICAL WRITING 37 SYMBOLICAL AND PHONETIC WRITING 44 HIEROGLYPHICS 56 MAP—ORIGIN OF VENUS 61 ÆNEAS DEFENDING THE BODY OF PANDARUS 68 THE TORTOISE 98 HELEN 105 MAP—WANDERINGS OF ÆNEAS 118 MAP—LATIUM 134 SILVIA'S STAG 145 RHEA SILVIA 180 FAUSTULUS AND THE TWINS 184 SITUATION OF ROME 209 PROMISING THE BRACELETS 284 THE DEATH OF ROMULUS 305 ROMULUS CADMUS. B.C. 1500 Different kinds of greatness. S ome men are renowned in history on account of the extraordinary powers and capacities which they exhibited in the course of their career, or the intrinsic greatness of the deeds which they performed. Others, without having really achieved any thing in itself very great or wonderful, have become widely known…