Who are i romulus and remus?

Legendary founder and first King of Rome. Romulus and Remus were sons of Mars and a http://www.answers.com/topic/vestal-virgin, Rhea Silvia. The war god having forced http://www.answers.com/topic/rhea-silvia, the infants were set http://www.answers.com/topic/adrift in a small boat on the flooded Tiber, but it was washed ashore and they were rescued and suckled by a she wolf. http://www.answers.com/topic/faustulus, the royal http://www.answers.com/topic/herdsman, discovered and adopted them. Grown to man's estate, they founded Rome, but http://www.answers.com/topic/strife arose between the brothers, in which Remus was slain. The city, a haven for runaway slaves and homicides, suffered from a shortage of women, which Romulus overcame by arranging for the capture of Sabine maidens at a festival. After ruling for forty years Romulus vanished and became the god Quirinus.

During the late fourth century BC the Romulus myth first rivalled that of http://www.answers.com/topic/aeneas as the supposed city founder. The she wolf had been the symbol of nationality since the establishment of the Republic in 510 BC. Although imperial patronage gave to Aeneas the official glory (on the nine hundredth anniversary of the traditional foundation of Rome in 148, coins were issued which gave pride of place to the city's Trojan origins) interest in Romulus and Remus never diminished. Their is a wolf that raised the children, named Romulus and Remus.

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