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Amulius threw the infant twins Romulus and Remus into the Tiber River and buried their mother Rhea Silvia alive, accusing Rhea Silvia of violating her oath of chastity as a Vestal virgin after she was raped by Mars which resulted in the birth of the twins, who eventually established the city of Rome, and overthrew Amulius.
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What did Romulus do when Remus was captured by Amulius?
Romulus gathered a group of shepherds and went to Alba Longa to liberate Remus. He met Numitor, his grandfather who had been the king of the city and deposed by his brother Amulius. They worked out that the twins were his grandsons. Romulus, with the help of Numitor, set out to take Alba Longa. Once there he was joined by people who had been mobilised by Remus, who had been liberated. They twins killed Amulius and restored Numitor to the throne. However, they decided not to stay in Albal Longa and to found a new city where they grew up.
What happened to Romulus and Remus mother?
Rhea Silva (Romulus and Remus' mother) was the daughter of Numitor, the king of Alba Longa who was deposed by his brother Amulius. She was forced by her uncle to become a vestal virgin (priestesses of the goddess Vesta who had to vow chastity) because he did not want her to have children who could become rivals for power. However, she was impregnated by the god Mars. When Amulius learned of this, he imprisoned Rhea Silvia and ordered a servant to kill the twins, but heset them adrift in a basket on the River Tiber. They landed by the Palatine Hill (where Rome was later founded). They were adopted by a shepherd and grew up as shepherds. As young men they found out about their origin. They went to Alba Longa, freed their mother and grandfather, overthrew their Amulius and restored Numitor to the throne
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How does the story of Romulus relate to the rise and fall of Rome?
The legend of Romulus and Remus relates only to the foundation of Rome. Romulus and Remus were the twin sons of Rhea Silvia, the daughter of Numitor, the king of the Latin city of Alba Longa who had been deposed by Amulius, his brother. Amulius forced her to become a priestess of Vesta because these priestesses had to vow chastity. This meant that she would not have children who could challenge him for the throne. However, Rhea Silvia had two sons and claimed she was impregnated by the god Mars. Amulius arranged for the twins to be put in a basket and thrown in the river Tiber. The twins landed by the Palatine Hill, in the area which was to become Rome. They were breastfed by a she-wolf and then adopted by a shepherd, Faustulus, and his wife, Acca Larentia. When the twins grew up they learnt what happened in Alga Longa, deposed Amulius and restored Numitor. The then decided to found a new city in the area of the Palatine Hill. There was disagreement. Romulus wanted to found the city on the Palatine Hill and Remus on the nearby Aventine Hill. They decided to resolve the dispute by Augury (a divination which read the omens of the gods). Romulus won and then begun to build a sacred wall around the Palatine Hill. A spiteful Remus trespassed the wall and Romulus killed him. The actual foundations of Rome din not involve the building of a new city. It was the unification of separate settlements on what were to become the Seven Hills of Rome (the Palatine, Aventine, Caelian, Esquiline, Viminal, Quirinal and Capitoline) into a single state ruled by Romulus. The earliest evidence of human settlement in the area of Rome dates to the 14th-13th century BC. That is, 500-600 years before the date of the foundation of Rome (573 BC).
