Are these legends of the founding of the city all from the same region?

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According to custom, Rome was officially founded in 753 BC. However, the actual founding time of the city is as confusing as most early Roman history, and even in the pen of the writer of the small chronology, the time of the founding of the city in Rome varies from person to person. Dionysius believes that Rome and Carthage were founded in the same year "38 years before the First Olympic Festival", i.e. 814 BC; Quintus Fabian Piquetor considers it the first year of the Eighth Olympic Festival (748 BC), and Cato believes that it was "432 years after the Trojan War" (752 BC). Somehow, the Varro tradition was eventually adopted, and in the third year (753 BC) of the Sixth Olympic Festival, the brothers Romulus and Remus led their followers to build a city on the banks of the Tiber River.

In the most widely circulated founding myths, Romulus and Remus are direct descendants of Aeneas. After Aeneas' death, his son founded a new city, Alba Longa, which was passed down to Numitor generations later. Numitor was usurped by his younger brother Amulius, and his daughter Rhea Silvia was forced to serve as a virgin in the Vista Temple to avoid giving birth to children with the right to the throne. However, Sylvia gave birth to twins with Mars, the god of war. Feeling that his position was being challenged, Amulius was furious and ordered the twins to be basketed and thrown into the Tiber. But the destined twins were not swept away by the flood, and were protected by a she-wolf, who raised them with their own milk until a shepherd named Faustulus found two children and brought them home to raise them. When Romulus and Remus grew up, they learned of their origins and helped their grandfather Numitor to regain the throne, and because they did not want to stay in Alba Longa, they led their followers to build a new city in the place where the two were found by Faustella. During the construction of the city, the two brothers had a fierce dispute. One day, Remus jumped over the plough ditch where Romulus signed the wall of the wall, and then provocatively said, "The enemy will jump over this wall like this." An enraged Romulus beat him to death and said, "If the enemy dares to jump over this wall, I will kill them." Romulus sacrificed his brother's life, built a new city, and named it "Roma" after himself.

Romulus and Remus receive the patronage of Fausdler

This bloody and ominous claim became the standard version of the Roman legend of the founding of the city in later generations. Brother-killing plots aside, it's easy to see the storyline as familiar: orthodox monarchs usurped; virgins (virgins) give birth to sons of god; babies are persecuted at birth; baskets are thrown into rivers (seas); babies who are difficult to die are rescued (often shepherds), and when they grow up, they kill usurpers to put things right. Not only the Romulus brothers, but also the almost identical elements can be found in the lives of Perseus in Greek mythology, Moses in the Bible, Kupselus in Collins, Sargon the Great in the Two Rivers Valley, and Shapur I in the Sassanid Dynasty. The narrative that is too coincidental cannot help but make later scholars wonder whether Romulus was created out of thin air in later generations based on stories circulating in Greece and the near Middle East.