Before Rome was Rome — before the seven hills held temples, palaces, and the fate of half the world — there were two newborns left to die in the flooded waters of the River Tiber. Their mother was a princess. Their father, supposedly, was a god. And the hill where they washed ashore would one day become the heart of the most powerful empire the world had ever seen.
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Gods & Monsters·3/3·1′

The place
Roman Forum & Palatine Hill
Romulus and Remus — The She-Wolf's Children
The founding myth of the Eternal City, born in blood on the Palatine Hill
753 BC (traditional founding)Roman Forum & Palatine Hill
Moral of the Story
“The founding of great civilizations often carries a cost of blood and sacrifice, and the bonds of ambition can sever even those of brotherhood.”
Characters
R
RomulusR
RemusM
Mars (God of War)R
Rhea SilviaK
King AmuliusK
King NumitorF
Faustulus (Shepherd)T
The She-Wolf (Lupa)Source
Livy, Ab Urbe Condita I; Plutarch, Life of Romulus; Virgil, Aeneid VIII; Ovid, Fasti