Legend of Romulus and Remus

Roman traditions adorned the rise of Rome with various legends that were mainly collected by the Roman historian Livy.

The legend of Romulus and Remus

Sculpture of Romulus and Remus

Monte Palatino

Legend has it that Ascanio, son of the Trojan hero Aeneas (son of Venus and Anchises), have founded the city of Alba Longa on the right bank of the Tiber River he says. This Latin city reigned many of their descendants up to Numitor and his brother Amulius. He dethroned Numitor and so he could not have offspring that throne dispute it, condemned his daughter, Rea Silvia, a priestess of the goddess Vesta to remain virgin.
However, Mars, the god of war, Rea Silvia generated on the twins Romulus and Remus. When they were born and to save them were thrown into the Tiber in a basket that ran aground in the area of ​​the seven hills located near the mouth of the Tiber, in the sea.
A wolf, called Luperca, came to drink and got them and nursed in his lair Monte Palatino until, finally, he found them and rescued a pastor whose wife raised them. Now adults, the twins rallied to Numitor on the throne of Alba Longa and founded, as this colony, a city on the right bank of the Tiber, in the place where they were suckled by the wolf, to be their kings.
It is said that the wolf that suckled Romulus and Remus was his human foster mother. The term wolf, Latin magnifying glass, was also used in a derogatory sense, to the prostitutes of the time.
Legend also tells how Romulus killed Remus. Near the mouth of the river Tiber were seven hills, the Aventino, Celio, Capitol Hill, Esquiline hills Palatine , Quirinal and Viminal. Romulus and Remus discussed the place to found the city and decided to consult the flight of birds, to the Etruscan way. Romulus saw twelve vultures flying over the Palatine and Remus saw only six other hills. Romulus then, to delimit the new city, drew a box with a plow on top of Mount Palatine and vowed to kill anyone who dared to pass it. Remo disobeyed and contempt crossed the line, so her brother killed and remained the only and first king of Rome. This would have happened in the year 754 a. C., according to the official version of the history of ancient Rome.

Greek origin

According to other ancient sources, the foundation of the city is related to the Greek world, as the founders had Trojan descent. This legend has Aeneas, a Trojan prince, as a direct ancestor of Romulus and Remus, who, by marrying the daughter Latin King, became king in turn.
This interpretation is found not only in Greek historians, but also defended the world against other Italic traditions attributed an Arcadian origin, related to the myth of Evandro, or Achaean, related Odysseus or Ulysses. Thus, the Greek historiography and Greek attributed a divine origin to the founding of Rome, later assumed by this version.

However, can not be considered admissible tradition of a Trojan origin of Rome if the date of the destruction of Troy (1200 BC) to the archaeological remains of the settlement of Latium and Septimontium, like compared to many other villages Bronze Final Italy and is far from being an important settlement, let alone a city. araku places to visit