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3 pages in length. The reasons for Livy and Thucydides to choose their respective historical topics are not merely to chronicle the events that occurred during each author's respective period but rather to bring question to how and why they originated, with both casting doubt on the validity for either to have happened in the first place. For Livy, it was the need to dig deeply into the truthfulness of legend involving Romulus and Remus; Thucydides wondered whether the event surrounding the war's commencement was truly worthy of such a drastic altercation. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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to how and why they originated, with both casting doubt on the validity for either to have happened in the first place. For Livy (2008), it was the need
to dig deeply into the truthfulness of legend involving Romulus and Remus; Thucydides (1986) wondered whether the event surrounding the wars commencement was truly worthy of such a drastic altercation.
The legend that surrounded Romulus and Remus was quite popular with Romans, but historian Livy (2008) was not completely convinced of its validity; as such, he took it upon himself
to examine previous centuries to find facts that would lead to its truth. More than one version had been passed along over the years, however, Livy (2008) focused upon
the earliest involving the wife of Romulus and Remuss shepherd rescuer claiming she her loose moral cast her into a she-wolf. As the legend progressed over time and entered
Livys (2008) period, the tale had turned into how an actual female wolf was the entity who rescued the boys, which was immortalized in clay as a nursing wolf nurturing
two human children. Livy (2008) learned the legend came to an end after the boys -- who were thought to be dead after being cast into the water in
a basket -- survived and ultimately grew up with the intent to seek revenge against the king (also their uncle) for casting them into such peril, locked away their mother
and stole the previous kings power (their grandfather). After giving power and the throne back to the grandfather, the boys founded Rome but soon went the way of Cain
and Abel; Remus died at the hands of his brother Romulus, who occupied the throne as first king of Rome. Thucydides (1986) account
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