Romulus

Examples of Romulus in the following topics:

• The Passive Voice

  • Traditional scholarship says the wolf-figure is Etruscan, 5th century BC, with figures of Romulus and Remus added in the 15th century AD by Antonio Pollaiuolo.

• The Seven Kings

  • Despite this, Roman kings, with the exception of Romulus, were elected by citizens of Rome who occupied the Curiate Assembly.
  • Romulus was Rome's legendary first king and the city's founder.
  • In 753 BCE, Romulus began building the city upon the Palatine Hill.
  • After the ensuing war with the Sabines, Romulus shared the kingship with the Sabine king, Titus Tatius.
  • Romulus selected 100 of the most noble men to form the Roman Senate as an advisory council to the king.

• The Founding of Rome

  • The most familiar of these myths, and perhaps the most famous of all Roman myths, is the story of Romulus and Remus, the twins who were suckled by a she-wolf.
  • Romulus and Remus were purported to be sons of Rhea Silvia and Mars, the god of war.
  • When Remus and Romulus became adults and learned the truth about their birth and upbringing, they killed Amulius and restored Numitor to the throne.
  • They quarreled, however, over where to locate the new city, and in the process of their dispute, Romulus killed his brother.
  • The iconic sculpture of Romulus and Remus being suckled by the she-wolf who raised them.

• Odoacer and the Fall of Rome

  • Odoacer was a military leader in Italy who led the revolt of Herulian, Rugian, and Scirian soldiers that deposed Romulus Augustulus on September 4,  476.
  • Orestes then proclaimed his young son Romulus the new emperor, Romulus Augustulus.
  • In 476 Odoacer advanced to Ravenna and captured the city, compelling the young emperor Romulus to abdicate on September 4.

• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

  • By 476 CE, when Odoacer deposed the Emperor Romulus, the Western Roman Empire wielded negligible military, political, or financial power and had no effective control over the scattered Western domains that could still be described as Roman.
  • In 476, after being refused lands in Italy, Orestes' Germanic mercenaries under the leadership of the chieftain Odoacer captured and executed Orestes and took Ravenna, the Western Roman capital at the time, deposing Western Emperor Romulus Augustus.
  • Charlotte Mary Yonge's 1880 artist rendition of Romulus Augustus resigning the crown to Odoacer.

• The Romans

  • The Romans relied on two sets of these to explain their origins: the first story tells the tale of Romulus and Remus, while the second tells that of Aeneas and the Trojans, who survived the sack of Troy by the Greeks.
  • Romulus killed his twin brother, Remus, in a fit of rage, and Aeneas slaughtered his rival Turnus in combat.
  • Romulus, whose name is believed to be the namesake of Rome, is credited for its founding.

• Feral Children

  • Barrie's Peter Pan, and the legends of Atalanta, Enkidu and Romulus and Remus.

• The Antonines

  • She wears and sits among armor, saluting the emperor and empress during their apotheosis,while leaning on a shield depicting the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus.

• The Byzantine Empire

  • Less than a century later, in 476, the last Western emperor Romulus Augustulus abdicated to a Germanic warlord who placed his own rule under that of the Eastern emperor.

• Early Roman Society

  • These designations were established at birth, with patricians tracing their ancestry back to the first Senate established under Romulus.