Once upon a time, King Numitor was ruling the city of Alba Longa. Alba Longa was a city in central Italy. Numitor got overthrown by his younger brother Amulius. Numitor was exiled to a farm. His daughter Rhea Silvia was consigned to the Vestal Virgins to keep her from having any boy that might want the throne. Although put behind locked doors, Rhea got pregnant. She claimed the god Mars was the father. (In some versions, the two hooked up in a sacred grove.) She was sent to live with her father and the twins Romulus and Remus were given to a servant to be disposed of. He brought the boys in a basket to the Tiber River and set it adrift. (In some versions, the boys were left on the bank of the Tiber.) The basket floated down the river until the basket got caught in a bush. (In some versions, the tree was a fig tree which the Romans called the Ruminalis.) The twins were found by a she-wolf (or a woodpecker) and suckled. The wolf brought the babies to its lair (called the Lupercal). Some time after, a shepherd discovered the feral boys and “rescued” them from their adoptive wolf. They grew up to be handsome young men and attracted followers.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rome-founded
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus
https://www.rome.net/romulus-and-remus
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Anonymous · June 29, 2024 at 8:55 pm
No question in my mind that Scipio was the greatest. Arguably, Scipio may well have changed the course of history, ensuring that Rome & Western culture would become the predominant culture ( & power) in the Mediterranean & Western world. Had it not been for Scipio’s achievements Caesar may have been born into a Rome that was a vassal state of Carthage if indeed he was born at all
. JMHO.