The wolf nursed the babies for a short time before they were found by a shepherd. The shepherd then brought up the twins. When Romulus and Remus became adults, they decided to found a city where the wolf had found them.
The brothers quarrelled over where the site should be and Remus was killed by his brother. This left Romulus the sole founder of the new city and he gave his name to it — Rome. This story, of course, is only a legend.
The actual growth of Rome is less exotic and interesting. The city of Rome grew out of a number of settlements that existed around seven hills that were near the River Tiber.
The settlements were near the river for the obvious reasons of a water supply. The Tiber was also narrow enough at this point to be bridged. As a Roman, he states that Romulus in a whirlwind of dust was raised to the heavens: this would be the phenomenon of Apotheosis. But as a historian, he does not omit the rumor of the time saying that taking advantage of bad weather, the Patricians have murdered him.
When Amulius overthrew his brother Numitor, King of Albe-la-Longue, he also forced his only daughter, Rhea Silvia, to become a vestal, thus ensuring that there would be no descendants to claim the throne.
But Mars, the god of war, seduced her and she gave birth to two twins Remus and Romulus. Amulius ordered his servants to kill the newborns, but they were content to throw them into the Tiber. The cradle was quickly swept away by the current and finally stopped on a mud bank. There, a wolf watched over the children. Later, Romulus and Remus were found in the den of the animal by a shepherd named Faustulus, who brought them home.
They were raised as shepherds but soon their leadership and fighting skills made them famous. One day, Numitor met Remus and guessed who he was. The family has reunited again but the two brothers could not content themselves with living peacefully at Albe-la-Longue. They left to found their own city. However, a quarrel broke out between the twins.
Then Romulus populated his city and after the fusion of the two peoples, he reigned with Titus Tatius. But soon Tatius died. Romulus remained the only king. Suddenly broke a terrible storm, accompanying a solar eclipse. Everything disappeared under the torrents of water.
Once the storm was over, when everyone came out of his shelter, it was in vain that the king was searched everywhere. Later, a Roman, Julius Proculus, claimed that Romulus had appeared to him in a dream to reveal to him that he had been kidnapped by the gods and that he had become the god Quirinus. He asked for a shrine to be raised on Mount Quirinal, which was done.
Hersilia, one of the Sabines abducted by the Romans, and become the wife of Romulus, was also placed, after his death, at the rank of the divinities. He was honored, in the same temple as Quirinus, under the names of Hora or Horta. His worship had some connection with that of Hebe, and it was invoked to attract his protection to the Roman youth. When Nimitor was king, his brother Amulius seized the power and dethroned Nimitor, killing his male heirs and forcing his daughter, Rhea Silvia, to become a Vestal Virgin so that she would not provide a male heir to the throne.
Nevertheless, Rhea Silvia gave birth to twins, Romulus and Remus, whose father was thought to be Mars, the god of War. Amulius imprisoned the daughter and condemned the babies to death by drowning in the river Tiber. However, the servant in charge of the task took pity on them and instead placed the twins into a basket and pushed them down the River Tiber. They were safely carried to the area of the seven hills.
There, the boys were found by a she-wolf called Lupa who nursed them in her lair in Palatine Hill until they were found by a shepherd and his wife, who raised them as shepherds. As adults, Romulus and Remus were two natural born leaders and in a fight killed King Amulius and reinstated Nimitor as king of Alba Longa. Seeking to establish their own settlement, Romulus finally built a wall around the Palatine Hill, the location he had chosen for the founding Rome.
When seeking the perfect location for their new city, the twins wandered across the seven hills Aventine, Celio, Capitol, Esquiline, Palatine , Quirinal and Viminal.
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