Who were Romulus and Remus?

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1. Brett
   

   According to Roman legend Romulus and Remus were grandsons of Numitor, King of Alba, who was deposed by his brother, Amulius. Numitor's daughter was forced to become a Vestal Virgin, but Mars, the god of war, fell in love with her and she gave birth to twin sons. Amulius commanded that the infants be drowned and they were thrown into the River Tiber in a basket of reeds. However, the basket was eventually washed ashore, and the babies were suckled by a she-wolf. They were later discovered by the king's shepherd who took them home and brought them up as his own sons.
   
   When Romulus and Remus were grown up they rose against the king, killed him and restored the throne to their grandfather. They decided to found a town and Romulus began to build a city on the Palatine Hill. His brother jeered at him, and in the ensuing quarrel Remus was killed. Romulus built the city and named it Roma (Rome).

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2. Guest2572
   

   According to Roman legend Romulus and Remus were grandsons of Numitor, King of Alba, who was deposed by his brother, Amulius. Numitor's daughter was forced to become a Vestal Virgin, but Mars, the god of war, fell in love with her and she gave birth to twin sons. Amulius commanded that the infants be drowned and they were thrown into the River Tiber in a basket of reeds. However, the basket was eventually washed ashore, and the babies were suckled by a she-wolf. They were later discovered by the king's shepherd who took them home and brought them up as his own sons.
   
   
   When Romulus and Remus were grown up they rose against the king, killed him and restored the throne to their grandfather. They decided to found a town and Romulus began to build a city on the Palatine Hill. His brother jeered at him, and in the ensuing quarrel Remus was killed. Romulus built the city and named it Roma (Rome).

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3. Guest8744
   

   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 later raised by the shepherd family of Faustulus and and his wife, Acca Larentia.
   
   When young men, the brothers decided to found a city. After studying the flights of birds, and signs in the sky, it was determined that each Romulus and Remus would be in charge of a section of the new city, but the signs also determined that Romulus section would be twice the size of Remus' section. Romulus, using a plow pulled by a white cow and a white bull, cut a furrow to mark the boundary of his section. Remus, angry at his brother getting the larger part, jumped over the furrow into his brothers section, where Romulus killed him (in another version of the story, invented later by the poet Ennius, Remus just disappeared during a storm).
   
   Romulus went on to build the city, which was named Rome after him. He was later deified and became associated with Quirinus, under whose name he was worshipped.
   
   Romulus and Remus are represented on a number of Roman coins, usually is as babies suckling at the she-wolf. The most common of these are the small bronze coins issued during what is known as the Constantine commemorative period, ca. 330-346 AD.
   
   
   
   
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