Roman History Lesson 1: Aeneas and the origins of Rome | So You Really Want to Learn Latin

The Romans were obsessed with Greek culture, and were keen to trace their history back to the times of the Trojan War. In this introductory video, I give the background to Virgil's epic poem, the Aeneid, and show how Aeneas was considered the father of the Roman people, generations before Romulus and Remus were even born. Buy the books: https://www.soyoureallywanttolearnlat... Click here for practice exercises: https://bit.ly/3aZdNQD Click here for the Grammar playlist: https://bit.ly/Grammar-for-Latin Click here for the Latin 1 playlist: https://bit.ly/SYRWTLLatin1 Click here for our Pronunciation guide: https://bit.ly/Latin-pronunciation The author, Nicholas Oulton, read History at Oriel College, Oxford and Classics at Royal Holloway College, London, before embarking on a teaching career. He wrote So you really want to learn Latin as an antidote to the then most popular textbooks which, in his humble opinion, failed to teach how the language worked. He then set up textbook publishers Galore Park to take his teaching methodology to other subjects. He is the author of a number of Latin and History textbooks.