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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 15556275, member: 128351&quot;]Livy wrote that all ancient records dating back to the earliest times were destroyed when the Gauls took and burned the city in BC 390. To write his Roman History from the Founding of the City, he relied on aristocratic families&#039; oral traditions and on the oldest laws of the city.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unlike the Greeks, the Romans had no mythology, they called it History. And because the Romans were jurists, most traditional stories about Rome&#039;s origins sound like legal commentaries explaining the context, therefore the spirit of Rome&#039;s oldest laws. The story about the &quot;asylum&quot;, for example, is the foundation of Roman citizenship considered as open to foreigners and even freedmen. Unthinkable in other cities like Sparta, for example! From Romulus (allegedly in BC 753) to Caracalla (AD 212) Roman citizenship was granted to more and more people. The rape of the Sabine women and their intervention to stop the fratricidal war between their brothers and their husbands is said by Plutarch to be the origin of married women&#039;s status and rights in Rome.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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