ROMOLUS AND REMUS Once upon a time Heneas, who escaped the destruction of Troy, came to Italy after a long wandering and he founded the city of Lavinio. His son, Ascanius, a few years later, founded the city of Albalonga giving life to the dinasty from...
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ROMOLUS AND REMUS Once upon a time Heneas, who escaped the destruction of Troy, came to Italy after a long wandering and he founded the city of Lavinio. His son, Ascanius, a few years later, founded the city of Albalonga giving life to the dinasty from which Romolus and Remus themselves were born. Many years passed and then arrived Numitor, a good king who had an evil brother. When Numitor was king of Albalonga, his brother Amulius took possession of the throne and forced Numitor’s daughter, Rhea Silvia, to become a Vestal and to make a vow of chastity, so that she could not have children. His plan seemed to work at the beginning, but one day Mars, the God of War, saw Rhea Silvia and fell in love with her. Later she gave birth to twin boys Romulus and Remus. The king was scared that someday Romulus and Remus would overthrow him and take his throne. So he ordered his slave to leave the boys in a basket on the Tiber River. He figured they would soon die.
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