Romulus and Remus

Romulus and Remus: Did they affect Roman Culture? Did your parents tell you stories as a kid? This is the case for many children, and can even be traced back to ancient times. Their version of stories is called myth, or legend. Myths and legends from ancient times were used to explain things that were out of the people’s control, or things they did not know. Origin is one example of this. Origin stories were created in ancient times through myths and legends. So, how did Roman mythology affect Roman

were 60-59 BC. Ancient Rome, of course, has a history. However, it’s history was a very long time ago, so long that no one alive today remembers what it was like. So how do historians know what it was like or how it may have been founded i.e. Romulus and Remus, the Trojan War? People wrote things down about it. One of those people is the very well-known Titus Livius, or Livy. Livy, born in Northern Italy (and live in a part of Rome that was not a part of the Roman Empire) found his way into the empirous

Rome: The Trojan prince Aeneas is sometimes credited with the founding of Rome as the culmination of his post-Trojan War adventures, but the version of the Roman foundation myth that is most familiar is that of Romulus, the first king of Rome. Birth of Romulus and Remus Romulus and Remus were twin brothers, the sons of a virgin named Rhea Silvia ( also called Ilia) and the god Mars, according to legend. The grandfather, Numitor, and the great-uncle, Amulius, who between them divided the wealth

First Romulus was making a group with the shepherds to bring the crown of the king down. And Remus made a new group in the state of Numitor. When Romulus group attacked, Remus`s group came to their assistance. In that ways they defeat the king. After that Amulius died, and now Romulus and Remus had to decide who will be king. How both were twins they couldn't decide by age, and both have the ambition

retaliation, Amulius murdered Numitor’s sons and forced his daughter, Rhea Silvia, to become a vestal virgin. But the god of war, Mars, became obsessed by her beauty and had his way with her while she slept. Rhea Silvia gave birth to twin boys, Romulus and Remus, as a result. Amulius in a rage, threw Rhea Silvia into the Tiber river. Servants took pity on the twins, so they were then put on the river in a reed basket, instead of being killed. They floated downstream until the basket was caught on the

expressed their art; through Architecture. I will start at the beginning of Rome which is the Classical and Imperial time period, then, go all the way up to the Neoclassical and Fascist time period. By legend, Rome was founded by two brothers, Romulus and Remus. They were both twins sons of the god of war, Mars. As babies, they were abandoned and left to drown in a woven basket on the Tiber River, ordered by the king of nearby Alba

Roman myth and mythology were merely the continuation of Greek myths and legends, with some Roman changes to suit the needs of the times. Through ancient writers such as Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, we have uncovered the intertwined nature of Greek myths and mythology had upon the Roman mythology story. Aeneas as described in the "Iliad" was the son of Aphrodite and Anchises a cousin of the king Priam of Troy. Aeneas was said to have the gods watch over him as he is fated not to die. During

not a threat to him, but if she had babies, then Amulius would be in trouble. So Amulius ordered Rhea Silva to go to the temple of Mars, so she would not have babies. But later on, Mars sneaks in and gives Rhea Silva twin boys, and named them Romulus and Remus. It did not take long for Amulius to figure out. So Amulius ordered the babies to be drowned and Rhea Silva to be thrown in prison. The servants snuck in during the night, and took the babies. But instead of drowning them, they threw them in

Society and pivotal points in its time. Who Founded Rome The twins named Romulus and Remus. Their mother was a Latin princess. Their father was Mars the god of war. The twins uncle was jealous of the twins and he had them thrown off a cliff into the Tiber river then saved by a she-wolf and raised by a shepherd. As adults they gathered a group and found a new city. Meanwhile they quarrelled and Romulus killed Remus. Romulus gave his city the name of Rome. This was only a legend told by romans What

said that feral children are the real life experiment that we cannot ethically carry out. They question what the defining factors in human nature are and furthermore how much society impacts on our personalities. The texts I have chosen are Romulus and Remus (Roman myth), The Girl with no Name by Lynne Barret-Lee, The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling and Lord of the flies by William Golding. All four texts propose that the experiences we have as a child are the most significant ones in making us who