Re: Was Rome founded by a woman?

The closest thing to an original source on the Web is a highly
unsatisfactory Discovery Channel news story at
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030512/rome.html
Not having the text of Stesichoros (particularly a newly
discovered fragment?), I'll speculate that if he indeed mentioned a
Trojan woman Roma (or the like), any connection to the village (town
maybe) on the Tiber that was Rome in his lifetime is as bad a back-
reading as the association with Rome of Reumah, Abraham's (or his
brother'?) concubine in Genesis 22:24, which Alex favored us with a
few days ago.
Dan

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> jpisc98357@... wrote:
>
> some very interesting historical data about Rome.
>
> > VIII.None of the above is evidence that Roma did not
> > found Rome, only questions whether it is possible or
> > if there is any evidence that she did.
> >
> > Best regards, John Piscopo
>
>
> Beside the historical data, I wonder about only one thing. Is in
Homer's
> work about Troj any woman called Roma? If yes, what a role did she
> played there? It is a proof of ignorance by my side, but I don't
> remember of any trojan woman called Roma there.is there any?
> BTW, it should be interesting to know if Stesichoros uses "Roma"
as the
> Latins did or "Ruma" as the Etruscans did.
>
> Alex