Key facts claimed:
- Virgil wrote that Alatri was built by a god (Saturn)
- Romans associated the builder with a golden era of prosperity
- Saturn was identified with Greek Cronus, Titan of the harvest/agriculture (not Chronos, the separate personification of time)
- Cyclopes were brothers to Cronus/Saturn in mythology (both offspring of Uranus and Gaia)
- Legend states Saturn introduced culture, agriculture and order to Italy
Sources
[PDF] life and letters of - Department of Englishweb.english.upenn.eduits real difficulty in general life, though now so appallingly thrust upon me. Yet with the aid of the Omnipotent nothing is impossible; and I crave His ...
Saturn | Facts, Information, and Mythology - Encyclopedia Mythicapantheon.orgA mythical king of Italy to whom was ascribed the introduction of agriculture and the habits of civilized life in general.
Saturn: Roman God of Agriculture - History Cooperativehistorycooperative.orgSaturn was a god associated with agriculture, wealth, and time. He was often depicted as an older man with a long beard, holding a sickle or scythe.
The Aeneid: » Mythological Models of Migrationweb.colby.eduVergil's rendition of Saturn's myth changes the timing of the Golden Age to occur after Saturn had been banished from heaven. Vergil also made ...
Rome Before Avignon - UC Press E-Books Collectionpublishing.cdlib.orgA thirteenth-century Rome in which a reader might feel that life as he or she understood and sensed it could in fact have existed.
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