In Roman mythology, Romulus and Remus, twin sons of the princess and vestal Rhea Silvia and the god Mars, are the legendary founders of Rome. The wolfs. Romulus and his twin brother Remus are the sons of vestal Rhea Silvia and the god Mars. Rhea Silvia is the daughter of Numitor, king of the legendary Latin city of Albe la Longue (founded by ...

In Roman mythology, Romulus and Remus were twin brothers who were raised by a wolf and later founded the city of Rome. Even if modern historians believe that much of their story is a myth, it gave the ancient citizens of Rome a sense of divine ancestry and the belief that their city was favored by the gods.

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.

Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of Rome. Traditionally, they were the sons of Rhea Silvia, daughter of Numitor, king of Alba Longa. Romulus and Remus suckling their wolf foster mother. Romulus and Remus suckling their wolf foster mother, bronze sculpture, c. 500–480 bce; in the Capitoline Museums, Rome. Height 85.1 cm.

Romulus and Remus, twin sons of Mars and the Vestal Rhea Silvia, were the mythical founders of Rome. At birth they were placed in a basket and set afloat on the Tiber (note the similarity to the story of Moses). The basket came aground at the grotto Lupercal, under a fig tree called Ruminal, where the twins were found and suckled by a she-wolf, and ...

24/03/2016 · Romulus and Remus were mythical twin brothers who founded the city of Rome around 753 BCE. In the Romulus and Remus story, Romulus founded the city of Rome after killing his brother Remus.

Romulus and his twin brother Remus were the founders of Rome in Roman mythology. Their mother was Rhea Silvia, daughter of the king of Alba Longa, Numitor, and their father was Mars , the Roman god of war and equivalent of the Greek god Ares .

03/03/1997 · The image of the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus appears on Roman-Campanian coins from around 300 BCE. The twins are also the subject of many Roman monuments, most famous of these is the she-wolf of the Capitols (Etruscan, fifth century BCE). The figures of Romulus and Remus are an additional from the sixteenth century.