The old king at Troy--Paris, the wayward youth--Helen carried off--The war of ten years--Æneas, son of Anchises, goes to Italy--His death-- Fact and fiction in early stories--How Milton wrote about early England--How Æneas was connected with England--Virgil writes about Æneas--How Livy wrote about Æneas--Was Æneas a son of Venus?--Italy, as Æneas would have seen it--Greeks in Italy--How Evander came from Arcadia--How Æneas died--Thirty cities rise--Twins and a she-wolf-- Trojan names in Italy--How the Romans named their children and themselves. II. HOW THE SHEPHERDS BEGAN THE CITY Augury resorted to--Romulus and Remus on two hills--Vultures determine a question--Pales, god of the shepherds--Beginning the city--Celer killed--An asylum--Bachelors want wives--A game of wife-snatching-- Sabines wish their daughters back--Tarpeia on the hill--A duel between two hills--Two men named Curtius--Women interfere for peace--Where did Romulus go?--Society divided by Romulus--Numa Pompilius chosen king-- Laws of religion given the people--Guilds established--The year divided into months--Tullus Hostilius king--Six brothers fight--Horatia killed --Ancus Martius king--The wooden bridge. III. HOW CORINTH GAVE ROME A NEW DYNASTY Magna Græcia--Cypselus, the democratic politician--Demaratus goes to Tarquinii--Etruscan relics--Lucomo's cap lifted--Lucomo changes his name--A Greek king of Rome--A circus and other great public works--A light around a boy's head--Servius Tullius king--How the kingdom passed from the Etruscan dynasty. IV. THE RISE OF THE COMMONS A king of the plebeians--A league with Latin cities--A census taken-- The Seven Hills--Classes formed among the people--Assemblies of the people--How ace means one--Heads of the people--Armor of the different classes--A Lustration or _Suovetaurilia_--What is a lustrum?-- Servius divides certain lands--A wicked husband and a naughty wife-- King Servius killed--Sprinkled with a father's blood. V. HOW A PROUD KING FELL A tyrant king--The mysterious Sibyl of Cumæ comes to sell books--The head found on the Capitoline--A serpent frightens a king--A serious inquiry sent to Delphi--A hollow stick filled with gold helps a young man--A good wife spinning--A terrible oath--The Tarquins banished--A republic takes the place of the kingdom--The first of the long line of consuls--The good Valerius--The god Silvanus cries out to some effect-- Lars Porsena of Clusium and what he tried to do--Horatius the brave-- Rome loses land--A dictator appointed--Castor and Pollux help the army at Lake Regillus--Caius Marcius wins a crown--Appius Claudius comes to town. VI. THE ROMAN RUNNYMEDE