Rome was, according to tradition, founded in 753 BC by Romulus? and Remus?, twin sons of the mortal woman Rhea Silvia and the god Mars. They were also descendents of Aeneas and the Trojan refugees whose story Virgil later told in his epic? poem the Aeneid?. Romulus killed Remus, and became the first king of Rome. Most of the following 6 kings had Etruscan? names, suggesting that members of the mature Etruscan civilization to the north of Rome dominated Rome. The expulsion of the king and the founding of the Republic in 509 BC is sometimes presented as the breaking away of a Latin-speaking population from the control of an Etruscan ruling family. |
Rome was, according to tradition, founded in 753 BC by Romulus? and Remus?, twin sons of the mortal woman Rhea Silvia and the god Mars. They were also descendents of Aeneas and the Trojan refugees whose story Virgil later told in his epic? poem the Aeneid?. Romulus killed Remus, and became the first king of Rome. Most of the following 6 kings had Etruscan? names, suggesting that members of the mature Etruscan civilization to the north of Rome dominated Rome. The expulsion of the king and the founding of the Republic in 509 BC is sometimes presented as the breaking away of a Latin-speaking population from the control of an Etruscan ruling family. |
The expulsion of the king and the founding of the Republic in 509 BC is sometimes presented as the breaking away of a Latin-speaking population from the control of an Etruscan ruling family.