Rome wasn’t very old by the standards of 1 AD. Elsewhere in Greece, Egypt and Middle East, cities had been inhabited for several millennia.
But Rome’s founding just 750 years earlier was mythological because the place was too remote to even have written history until much later. Virgil had to invent a Trojan connection to elevate the national epic.
But Rome’s founding just 750 years earlier was mythological because the place was too remote to even have written history until much later. Virgil had to invent a Trojan connection to elevate the national epic.