What is the legend many Romans used to explain the creation of their history?

Question

i also need a thesis for a paper discussing the above. Also is there any relationship between this legend and the early Romans themselves?

Answer 1

Romulus was laying a wall about the new city, and it was only a few stones high. Remus laughed and said that enemies could leap over the wall, "Like this!" he said, jumping the wall. "And then I would slay them like this!" Romulus replied, picking up a stone and striking his brother on the head, killing him.

The legendary founding of Rome was 753 BCE. The 1000th anniversary was actually celebrated in AD 247 by the emperor Philip the Arab. Philip was assassinated months later.

After the new city was enclosed with a wall, the Romans invited their neighbors, the Sabines, to join in dedicating the new city. They set up tables and benches outside for a cookout. The Roman men (they had come to Latium without women) invited Sabine girls into the city to show it to it to them. Once inside, they shut the gates.

The Sabines raged, but there was nothing they could do. Next spring, the Sabines besieged Rome. But the women ran outside asking them to stop, because in the meantime, they had found husbands.

There was a legend that Rome was also founded partly by Aeneas, who escaped from the city of Troy as the Greeks were taking it. He carried his father Anchises piggy-back, while leading his boy Ascanius by the hand.

Finally, the Romans were ruled in earliest of their history by kings. You can look these kings up in Plutarch's "Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans." Numa Pompilius and Tarquin the Proud come to mind. The tale of the Cumaean sybil come to Rome to sell Tarquin the Sybilline books. The Romans hated the very name of king, "rex." Too bad for Julius Caesar. Were the earliest Romans Etruscans?

Answer 2

Look up Romulus and Remus, two babies that suckled on a mother wolf. That's the name of the legend of their origin.