Romulus And Remus Research Paper

In 753 BC Romulus founded the city of Rome. Although the story of Romulus and Remus is a Roman myth, parts of it are actually true! In the story, it says that the brothers were the sons of Mars, the Roman god of war, who at their birth abandoned them on a hill in now a day Italy. Even though that part is not true according to Livy, i. 3. “Romulus was the legendary founder and first king of Rome. Various traditions attribute the establishment of many of Rome's oldest legal, political, religious, and social institutions to Romulus and his contemporaries.”