In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Patrick Roper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
Subscribers, if they are not aware of it already, may be interested in
knowing that, according to Rome's Il Messaggero newspaper, a fragment of
writing by the Graeco-Sicilian poet Stesichorus (638-555 BC) recounts how a
woman named Roma arrived with a Trojan fleet in an idyllic place that could
easily be Rome, burnt her boats and founded the eponymous city there.

The story is here:

http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/22/wrome22
.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/04/22/ixworld.html
When I tried it, the page was said not to be available. Is this said to be a new fragment, or have I forgotten something?

Leofranc Holford-Strevens

(Don't forget to join the two bits of the link together)

One wonders if Virgil was aware of this alternative version of the founding
of Rome.

Patrick Roper


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