placeRomePlacesThe named city of seven hills and later empire speech. Not Athens as the Greek pole, and not a nation dump.Roman religionRome appears in Roman religion.The Aeneid names Rome as the destined seat Aeneas’s line must found. A named Rome in that epic destiny speech, not a modern nation-state dump and not every Italic town.from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)appears in · sourced · documentedsourcesAeneid · VirgilVirgil, Aeneid.