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106. The Forum Boarium and Rome's Mythical Prehistory

Published: March 27, 2024, 8:38 p.m.

There is scant evidence regarding the prehistory of Rome, but the Romans supplied this defect by handing down and codifying engaging myths. Today we visit the Forum Boarium, where Rome\u2019s distant ancestors met and began to form the people from whom the Romans would descend, or so at least Livy and Virgil tell us.