Legendary Founder of Rome?

Question

In the Epic Poem of Virgil Aenead, the Trojan hero Aeneas founded Rome. So who is the actual legendary founder of Rome.. Romulus or Aeneas?

Answer 1

The twin brother Romulus and Remus are believed to be the founder of Rome, which is in turn believed to be the descendants of Aeneas, a Trojan Hero friend of Prince Hector.

Answer 2

Founder Of Rome

Answer 3

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Legendary Founder of Rome?
In the Epic Poem of Virgil Aenead, the Trojan hero Aeneas founded Rome. So who is the actual legendary founder of Rome.. Romulus or Aeneas?

Answer 4

There is the legendary tale of Romulus and Remus, twins who were found as babies floating on the river and rescued by a mother wolf. The boys were later found by people who took them as their own. When the brothers grew up they wanted to build a place where their people would live and they disagreed as to the location of the place that would be their people's permanent home. Romulus chose to be next to the river Tiber. There is one version of the legend that said that the two brothers clashed violently. Remus left and Romulus built the settlement that evenutally took chose the name Rome in his honour. There is another version of this story, that the people who escaped the destruction of Troy at the hands of the Greeks, ran until they came to the foot of Mount Ida, where the river Tiber runs. There under the guidance of Anais they created the city that they called Rome, in the hopes of one day repaying the Greeks for their kindness.

Answer 5

Nono, honey, have you ever *read* the Aenead? Aeneas married a princess of the Latin tribe, Lavinia. He did not found any city. His son by his first wife, Creusa, Ascanius, founded the city Alba Longa. Much later, the twins Romulus and Remus were born there. When they grew up, Romulus killed Remus and founded Rome.

Answer 6

The legendary founders are Aeneid who founded the Roman state, and later his descendant Romulus who founded the city of Rome. Remus is killed by his twin brother so he is out of the "picture"

Answer 7

aeneas founds alba longa or some such town and make the first settlement in italy which is where romulus and remus come from. technically he is responsible for its founding because he brought its people to italy from troy and romulus and remus kind of set things up. The reason why it is kind of complicated like this is that romulus and remus were an old folk tale in roman times but caesar had vergil make the aeneid as a piece of propaganda. Note that aeneas' son's name is iulus which is very similar to julius like caesar, especially since the romans did not have a J so julius started with an i techincally implying that caesar is a descendant of aeneas. Also since aeneas is descended from the god venus it means that caesar is also. As part of the conditions for writing the aeneid caesar was to give back vergil's farm which was taken away since he supported a faction that was against ceasar before he had absolute power. romulus and remus are supposedly descended from the god mars and a preistess of a temple in alba longa. As for the statue of the shewolf with romulus and remus suckling, the romulus andremus babies were added during the rennaissance as revisionism to the wolf statue from etruscan lands.

Answer 8

According to Greek Mythology,two twin boys who were raised by wolves, founded Rome. During the building process,Remus jumped over the sacred ditch surrounding the city and was killed,hence,Romulus was the only one left,so the city was called Rome

Answer 9

Romulus and his brother Remus founded Rome.

Answer 10

The city-state of Rome, has supposedly founded by a pair of twins suckled by a wolf. Romulus was one of them. Hence, you see the picture of the female wolf, and two children on the coat-of-arms of Rome's many Emperors.