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Article: Romulus and Remus.
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- December 1, 2007
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Romulus stood on the Palatine Hill, his eyes scanning the skies above. Not far away, on the Aventine Hill, his twin brother, Remus, was also looking skyward. Each wanted to establish a great city in the land now known as Italy, but they could not agree on where it should be built. So they watched and waited for a sign that would reveal which brother would become the founder of the new city.
According to the ancient Romans, Rome was founded in 753 B.C. However, to understand that celebrated event, we must backtrack some 400 years to the Trojan War, a conflict that tradition dates to about 1180 B.C.
When the Greeks captured ...