How was Rome founded? Whenever this question is asked, historians will show a gloomy look. Because there are few facts of certainty that can be answered. Of course, if it is a mythical legend, there are endless stories.
Because seven hundred years after the founding of Rome, there are a large number of legends and stories passed down to future generations. Everyone should have heard of Rome, the famous city of Italy, the most famous of the relevant characters is the government of the Mediterranean Julius Caesar, as well as the ancient Roman Arena, etc., and even the classic movie "Roman Holiday" starring Audrey Hepburn is also filmed here, even if so much is said, it is still difficult to say that Rome is exhausted, this article is from the perspective of the origin of the founding of Rome to talk about the city.
There are many mythical overtones in the records of the founding of Rome, before starting to talk about the origin of the founding of Rome, first understand the essential difference between Roman mythology and Greek mythology, Greek mythology is simply the origin of Greek religion, if you want to understand their religion, political environment and the entire ancient Greek civilization, then understanding the essence behind these myths is necessary.
On the contrary, Rome did not have a greek mythological system, or a legend of the struggle between gods, which did not exist in Rome, and the Roman myths we see now were written by poets at the end of the Roman Republic imitating Greece. Roman mythology is characterized by the fact that the main actor is man, and god sometimes intervenes, simply to describe the intricate relationship between god and god and between god and man.
After a quick introduction to the characteristics of Roman mythology, return to the theme of Rome, according to their mythological records, the later Eternal City began to develop on April 21, 753 BC, and it is well known that the story of Rome dates back to Alba, starting with the twin brothers of Romulus and Rimus raised by wolves. Lunga is a neighboring city.
The key characters are twins: Romulus and Remus, the parents of the two brothers are very different, and the mother is Rhea Sylvia, who is said to have the blood of the Trojan royal family in Greek mythology, when she was a Vesta priest.
One night, Rhea Sylvia is said to have befriended Mars, the god of war, according to one theory that Mars came to the temple to defile her, and the other that Mars disguised herself as a wolf and violated her. If true, the blood inherited by the two brothers is extraordinary; the father Mars is not only the son of Jupiter, the king of the gods of Roman mythology, and Juno the Queen of Heaven (Jupiter is the same as Zeus of Greek mythology, Juno is the same as Greece), but also the lover of venus, the main god worshipped by the brave Roman legions in the future, and also makes the Romans sometimes call themselves "sons of Mars", and in many Latin languages in Europe, the semantic source of Tuesday is from Mars, meaning Mars Day or Martian Day, such as Italian, Spanish and French.
The situation before the birth of the two brothers was not too optimistic, and their maternal grandfather Numite and brother Amulius were descendants of Aeneas who escaped from Troy. Their brother Amurius had mastered the royal treasure, and Amulius, who used the power of this treasure, overthrew his brother Numitus as king, but he still had some fear: he was afraid that his daughter Rhea Sylvia would later give birth to offspring to overthrow his position, so he asked her to enter the Temple of Vesta and become a virgin priest, and entering here seemed to mean that the possibility of giving birth to offspring was zero, we all know that things in the world are always unsatisfactory, this time it is Mars who breaks Amulius's plan.
Soon after, Sylvia gave birth to two twin boys: Romulus and Remus. Amurius, furious at this news, ordered Sylvia to be buried alive (the punishment of the Vista virgin who violated her oath at the time), and abandoned the newborn twins to the outskirts in an attempt to kill them by the power of heaven, saving himself the trouble.
But there is a theory that Amurius ordered Sylvia and the twins to be thrown into the Tiber, and the servants sent to kill the two brothers did not want to do anything, so they placed their cradles on the banks of the Tiber River, and the river flowed down the river after the tide rose.
The river god also brought the twins to the Palatine Hill (one of the seven hills of Rome, now one of the oldest areas in Rome, from which you can see the Colosseum and the Roman Forum), and under a banyan tree a she-wolf feeds the brothers. There was also a woodpecker feeding them. Why these two animals? Both the wolf and the woodpecker are Mars's sacred beasts, which can be regarded as the care of the two brothers' fathers, so the famous bronze she-wolf statue describes this story. However, some scholars believe that the Latin word for wolf also means prostitute or priestess of the wolf god, and that the so-called wolf in mythology is actually a human being.
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The history of Rome before it first began to have the intention of building a city, rather than simply recording what happened, it is better to embellish it with poetic legends. Therefore, I do not want to say anything positive or negative about this history.
Because by mixing the actions of human beings with the actions of the gods, the origin story of each city can be more solemn, which was allowed by the ancient people.
What's more, the populace should be able to accept the sanctification of their origins and the deification of their founders.