If true, then the story about the wolf suckling the babies is only an interpretation of a Latin word for brothel lupanar cave. The Latin for both 'prostitute' and 'she-wolf' is lupa.
A cave was uncovered on the Palatine Hill in Rome that some think is the Lupercale in which Romulus and Remus were suckled by a lupa whether wolf or prostitute. If this were said cave, it might prove the existence of the twins. Although Romulus or Rhomos or Rhomylos is considered the eponymous ruler, Rome may well have a different origin.
The mother of the twins Romulus and Remus was said to have been a Vestal Virgin named Rhea Silvia, the daughter of the rightful king Numitor and niece of the usurper and ruling king, Amulius of Alba Longa, in Latium. The usurper feared a future challenge from Numitor's descendants. To prevent their being born, Amulius forced his niece to become a Vestal and therefore forced to remain a virgin.
The penalty for violating the vow of chastity was a cruel death. The legendary Rhea Silvia survived violation of her vow long enough to give birth to twins, Romulus and Remus. Unfortunately, like later Vestal Virgins who violated their vows and therefore endangered the luck of Rome or were used as scapegoats when Rome's luck appeared to be running out , Rhea may have suffered the usual punishment -- burial alive shortly after delivery.
The Founding of Alba Longa:. At the end of the Trojan War , the city of Troy was destroyed, the men were killed and the women taken as captives, but a few Trojans escaped. A cousin of the royals, Prince Aeneas , son of the goddess Venus and the mortal Anchises, left the burning city of Troy, at the end of the Trojan War, with his son Ascanius, the pricelessly important household gods, his elderly father, and their followers.
After many adventures, which the Roman poet Vergil Virgil describes in the Aeneid , Aeneas and his son arrived at the city of Laurentum on the west coast of Italy. Aeneas married Lavinia, the daughter of the king of the area, Latinus, and founded the town of Lavinium in honor of his wife. Ascanius, son of Aeneas, decided to build a new city, which he named Alba Longa, under the Alban mountain and near where Rome would be built.
Events Before the Founding of Rome:. Who Founded Rome - Romulus or Aeneas? There were two traditions on the founding of Rome. According to one, Aeneas was the founder of Rome and according to the other, it was Romulus. Cato, in the early second century B. He combined the two stories to come up with what is the generally accepted version. The Etruscans, and not the Romans, invented the toga, a cloak used for formal clothing, and gladiatorial fighting.
Both of these examples were borrowed by the Romans. The Etruscans also believed in predicting the future by examining nature, something the Romans believed in as well. It was from the Etruscans that the Romans borrowed realistic art. The Greeks settled in colonies in Southern Italy. From the Greeks, the Romans borrowed the gods and goddesses of the Greek pantheon , and learned Greek stories and literature.
From the Latins, the Romans borrowed the Latin language, though wealthy Romans preferred to speak Greek. And from the Sabines, Rome's closest neighbors, the Romans learned fighting techniques and discipline. There were seven kings who ruled Rome at the beginning of its history. April 21, B. At this time the Greeks were just emerging out of their Dark Ages. Romulus reigned from to BC.
After Romulus died, the next four kings were elected by the Romans, the sixth, Servius Tullius, inherited the throne, and the seventh, Tarquinius Superbus was a usurper , killing Servius Tullius to gain the throne. The second king was Numa Pompilius, he reigned from to BC. Numa Pompilius was a Sabine who gave Rome its religious ceremonies. The third Roman king, Tullus Hostilius, who reigned from BC to BC was a warlike king, who had many battles against the neighboring peoples of Rome.
You can see the English word, hostile, as part of his name. He extended Roman territory by defeating the Latins in several battles. After Ancus, Rome was ruled by three Etruscan kings. Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, also called Tarquin the Elder, was fifth king, the first of the Etruscan kings. Tarquin the Elder constructed the Circus Maximus, a chariot racing stadium.
Chariot racing also came to Rome through the Etruscans, the very best chariots racers of the ancient world. Servius Tullius reigned from to BC. Servius Tullius inherited the throne from Tarquin the Elder, although he was not the son of the former king.
Servius Tullius developed the first census of Rome, a count of citizens by one-hundreds. The more sets of one-hundred citizens an area of Rome had, the more voting rights they were given.
The census also determined how many soldiers each area of Rome had to send to the Roman army. Servius Tullius had one kind daughter and one wicked daughter, and there is a great story about Tullius' two daughters. The wicked daughter plotted to kill her father so her husband could gain the throne.
That husband was the final king of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus. Tarquinius Superbus the proud , the son of the former king, Tarquin the Elder, reigned from to BC.
Tarquinius Superbus was a usurper, having killed his father-in-law to gain the throne. Another Roman foundation legend, which has its origins in ancient Greece, tells of how the mythical Trojan Aeneas founded Lavinium and started a dynasty that would lead to the birth of Romulus and Remus several centuries later. In the Iliad, an epic Greek poem probably composed by Homer in the eighth century B.
A passage told of how he and his descendants would rule the Trojans, but since there was no record of any such dynasty in Troy, Greek scholars proposed that Aeneas and his followers relocated. In the fifth century B. In the fourth century B. In the first century B.
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