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I wonder if the Romans knew how many years before the start of the Common Era this was when it happened. Also I want to know if Rome was incorporated as a City under local law.
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Originally Posted by This Day in History
According to tradition, on April 21, 753 B.C., Romulus and his twin brother, Remus, found Rome on the site where they were suckled by a she-wolf as orphaned infants. Actually, the Romulus and Remus myth originated sometime in the fourth century B.C., and the exact date of Rome’s founding was set by the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro in the first century B.C.
Erm, I'm not too sure that I actually believe the story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf :-D. I suggest its impossible to tell exactly when the first family/families put a stake in the ground and said lets live here.
Erm, I'm not too sure that I actually believe the story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf :-D. I suggest its impossible to tell exactly when the first family/families put a stake in the ground and said lets live here.
As for its legendary founding, read Livy. Romulus gathered a number of outcasts...did not have wives...rape of the Sabine women...Etruscan kings...etc...expulsion of kings and founding of the republic...flitation with the twelve tables...etc.
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