The Romans are suffering from a Plague... They come and ask the Greek Elders for help. They go to the God Phoebus / Apollo, he tells them to go to his son Aesculapius. Aesculapius comes to the Romans sort of in a dream while they're asleep and tells them that he will morph in a Snake as is on his staff such as the way a Celestial Body would change. I assumed he was talking about turning into a Dragon. He turns into a giant Celestial Snake with a huge crest. He decides to move to Rome, Italy from Epidaurus, Greece to help the Romans with the plague as a Dragon. He decides to land on Tiber Island of the Tiber River in Rome, there is where the Romans build him a temple, the Temple of Aesculapius.
It is shortly hereafter when The Greek Gods decide to help the Romans in Italy that Julius Caesar is assasinated. The Greek Gods instead of helping the Roman Julius Caesar let him get murdered, do not change him into a star and just turn him into a Comet.
Here are some of the Notes I took down from rereading this part.
Notes:
The Italians from Latium came to Delphi to ask Phoebus for help about their plague. Phoebus / Apollo calls them Romans.
Phoebus is the character that once persued a girl named Daphne who turned into the Laurel tree when Phoebus tried to snatch her. It was then that Phoebus honored her with the Laurel Wreath.
Phoebus tells the Romans to ask his son for help.
Phoebus was also Father of Phaethon with Clymene.
The Latium / Romans / Italians went to Epidaurus, Greece to seek for help from the God / Phoebus's son that might prevent the extinction of the Ausonian / Latium / Roman /Italian race.
They begged the Greek elders for help. The Greek elders sought the Oracles and they became of various minds. Some thought that help could not be refused.
"The majority recommended the god should be kept, and their own wealth not released, or surrendered."
"While they wavered, as dusk dispelled the lingering light, and darkness covered the countries of the earth with shadow, then, in your dreams, Aesculapius, god of healing, seemed to stand before your bed, Roman"
Aesculapius appeared to the Romans while they were sleeping.
" just as he is seen in his temple, holding a rustic staff in his left hand, and stroking his long beard with his right, and with a calm voice, speaking these words: ‘Have no fear! I will come, and I will leave a statue of myself behind. Take a good look at this snake, that winds, in knots, round my staff, and keep it in your sight continually, until you know it! I will change into this, but greater in size, seeming as great as a celestial body should be when it changes.’"
Aesculapius tells the Romans to look at the Snake on his staff. He tells them he will turn into one be greater in size such as when a celestial body be when it changes. (I'm thinking he might turn into a Dragon.)
" When morning had put the bright stars to flight, the leaders, still unsure what to do, gathered at the temple complex of that god whom the Romans sought, and begged him to show them by some divine token where he himself wanted to live. They had hardly ceased speaking, when the golden god, in the likeness of a serpent with a tall crest, gave out a hiss as a harbinger of his presence, and by his coming, rocked the statue, the doors, the marble pavement, and the gilded roof. Then he stopped, in the middle of the temple, raising himself breast-high, and gazed round, with eyes flashing fire.
The Romans asked Aesculapius if he wanted to live in Rome.
The terrified crowd trembled, but the priest, his sacred locks tied with a white band, knew the divine one, and cried: ‘The god, behold, it is the god! Restrain your minds and tongues, whoever is here! Let the sight of you, O most beautiful one, work for us, and help the people worshipping at your shrine!’ Whoever was there, worshipped the god, as they were told, and all re-echoed the priest’s words, and the Romans gave dutiful support, with mind and voice.
The god nodded, and shook his crest, confirming his favour, by hissing three times in succession, with his flickering tongue. Then he glided down the gleaming steps, and turning his head backwards, gazed at the ancient altars he was abandoning, and saluted his accustomed house, and the temple where he had lived. From there the vast serpent slid over the flower-strewn ground, flexing his body, and made his way through the city centre to the harbour, protected by its curved embankment. He halted there, and, appearing to dismiss the dutiful throng, with a calm expression, settled his body down in the Ausonian ship."
He entered an Ausonian ship to move to Rome.
" Caïeta, named after her whom Aeneas her foster-son buried; " Might have been Creusa and Ascanius.
"Bk XV:745-842 The deification of Julius Caesar
Though Aesculapius came as a stranger to our temples, Caesar is a god in his own city. Outstanding in war or peace, it was not so much his wars that ended in great victories, or his actions at home, or his swiftly won fame, that set him among the stars, a fiery comet, as his descendant. There is no greater achievement among Caesar’s actions than that he stood father to our emperor."
It is shortly hereafter when The Greek Gods decide to help the Romans in Italy that Julius Caesar is assasinated. The Greek Gods instead of helping the Roman Julius Caesar let him get murdered, do not change him into a star and just turn him into a Comet.
Here are some of the Notes I took down from rereading this part.
Notes:
The Italians from Latium came to Delphi to ask Phoebus for help about their plague. Phoebus / Apollo calls them Romans.
Phoebus is the character that once persued a girl named Daphne who turned into the Laurel tree when Phoebus tried to snatch her. It was then that Phoebus honored her with the Laurel Wreath.
Phoebus tells the Romans to ask his son for help.
Phoebus was also Father of Phaethon with Clymene.
The Latium / Romans / Italians went to Epidaurus, Greece to seek for help from the God / Phoebus's son that might prevent the extinction of the Ausonian / Latium / Roman /Italian race.
They begged the Greek elders for help. The Greek elders sought the Oracles and they became of various minds. Some thought that help could not be refused.
"The majority recommended the god should be kept, and their own wealth not released, or surrendered."
"While they wavered, as dusk dispelled the lingering light, and darkness covered the countries of the earth with shadow, then, in your dreams, Aesculapius, god of healing, seemed to stand before your bed, Roman"
Aesculapius appeared to the Romans while they were sleeping.
" just as he is seen in his temple, holding a rustic staff in his left hand, and stroking his long beard with his right, and with a calm voice, speaking these words: ‘Have no fear! I will come, and I will leave a statue of myself behind. Take a good look at this snake, that winds, in knots, round my staff, and keep it in your sight continually, until you know it! I will change into this, but greater in size, seeming as great as a celestial body should be when it changes.’"
Aesculapius tells the Romans to look at the Snake on his staff. He tells them he will turn into one be greater in size such as when a celestial body be when it changes. (I'm thinking he might turn into a Dragon.)
" When morning had put the bright stars to flight, the leaders, still unsure what to do, gathered at the temple complex of that god whom the Romans sought, and begged him to show them by some divine token where he himself wanted to live. They had hardly ceased speaking, when the golden god, in the likeness of a serpent with a tall crest, gave out a hiss as a harbinger of his presence, and by his coming, rocked the statue, the doors, the marble pavement, and the gilded roof. Then he stopped, in the middle of the temple, raising himself breast-high, and gazed round, with eyes flashing fire.
The Romans asked Aesculapius if he wanted to live in Rome.
The terrified crowd trembled, but the priest, his sacred locks tied with a white band, knew the divine one, and cried: ‘The god, behold, it is the god! Restrain your minds and tongues, whoever is here! Let the sight of you, O most beautiful one, work for us, and help the people worshipping at your shrine!’ Whoever was there, worshipped the god, as they were told, and all re-echoed the priest’s words, and the Romans gave dutiful support, with mind and voice.
The god nodded, and shook his crest, confirming his favour, by hissing three times in succession, with his flickering tongue. Then he glided down the gleaming steps, and turning his head backwards, gazed at the ancient altars he was abandoning, and saluted his accustomed house, and the temple where he had lived. From there the vast serpent slid over the flower-strewn ground, flexing his body, and made his way through the city centre to the harbour, protected by its curved embankment. He halted there, and, appearing to dismiss the dutiful throng, with a calm expression, settled his body down in the Ausonian ship."
He entered an Ausonian ship to move to Rome.
" Caïeta, named after her whom Aeneas her foster-son buried; " Might have been Creusa and Ascanius.
"Bk XV:745-842 The deification of Julius Caesar
Though Aesculapius came as a stranger to our temples, Caesar is a god in his own city. Outstanding in war or peace, it was not so much his wars that ended in great victories, or his actions at home, or his swiftly won fame, that set him among the stars, a fiery comet, as his descendant. There is no greater achievement among Caesar’s actions than that he stood father to our emperor."
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