About Inanna's Descent - one thing that gets lost in modern translations is that Her Sister wanted justice for Inanna causing Her Husband's Death (the Father of the Child She was having). That was in Gilgamesh. So, it is more than Inanna bravely going into the Underworld.
Romans sense of time was that Rome was eternal. That yes, change happened but there was always Rome. Even when the Republic fell, the Civil Wars, and the Empire - all remained static to the continuing of the City. Time really is absent from Roman myths except for Saturnus, who ruled in a Golden Age of Latium. Fornax brought the Romans civilization, but Ovid tells it as "before we were Romans."
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Date: 2025-04-29 01:15 pm (UTC)Romans sense of time was that Rome was eternal. That yes, change happened but there was always Rome. Even when the Republic fell, the Civil Wars, and the Empire - all remained static to the continuing of the City. Time really is absent from Roman myths except for Saturnus, who ruled in a Golden Age of Latium. Fornax brought the Romans civilization, but Ovid tells it as "before we were Romans."