Was founded Rome on April 21 – BBC

According to legend, Rome was founded on April 21 753 BC It happened on the banks of the Tiber River – as historians write, about 22 km from its mouth in the delta, which would become the port of Ostia. Ostia was founded king Ankom Marcius because of the presence here of the rich salt-works, as well as to prevent the penetration of enemy ships to Rome along the river

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At the same time these same historians believe that the tradition of April 21 should be questioned. “There was this initial moment when the scattered villages of the Iron and Bronze Ages in the hills have decided to come together and named the city – says art historian and art critic Robert Hughes. – The older the city, the more doubt is its origin, and even the definition of old Rome. However, this did not prevent the Romans since II century BC and then call the incredibly precise date of its occurrence in Rome as stated before, there was not just in the VIII century BC – namely, in 753 BC, and its founder was Romulus, the twin brother Remus. So begins an intricate tradition that exists in many versions, and usually revolves around the same motives: this ambition, patricide, fratricide, treachery and again an overwhelming ambition. Especially the latter. A more ambitious city than Rome, had happened in the world, and probably will not, though New York is with him in this bet. And no other city was so imbued with cruelty from the very beginning, as Rome – this brings us back to the legend of his mythical infancy »

Legend: once beautiful Ray. Sylvia, a celibate, met a war god Mars and bore him twins – Romulus and Remus. Rhea’s uncle, King Amulius, became angry and ordered the execution of promiscuous niece and newborn boys put in a basket and thrown into the Tiber.

According to the historian Titus Libya, Basket with babies washed ashore, and there is dirty and wet twins found a wolf that suckled them with her milk. According to some versions, of Romulus and Remus also cared woodpecker and lapwing (a small bird of the family Charadriidae). It is interesting that the Romans later became regarded as a sinister bird lapwing. In the famous “Satyricon” of Petronius Arbiter found saying «Malam parram pilavit» ( «a nasty nip tsigalitsu (lapwing)”), which meant – no luck, got into trouble

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When the kids have grown up and matured, they took over the education of the royal shepherd Favstul. Boys matured by leaps and bounds, and they soon overthrew their treacherous kin Amulius. Rhea Silvia by that time was already dead.

Then, the twins decided to establish a settlement on the Tiber, but the brothers could not choose the exact location. Remus chose between the Aventine and the Capitol Hill, and Romulus insisted on the Palatine Hill. And then again, there are different versions of the legend: according to the first, the twins got their backs to each other and waited for a sign from above. Remus saw six vultures hovering in the sky, and Romulus – twelve. The victory was on the side of Romulus (by the way, twelve vultures will symbolize the twelve years of Roman power)

The second version is much more bloodthirsty:. Between the brothers broke dispute, and Romulus killed Remus and then He founded the city, which gave its name.

«So, the first founder of the earthly city was a fratricide, of jealousy killed his brother, a citizen of the eternal city, the pilgrim on this earth (Gen. 4.) – Will write later Christian theologian and philosopher St. Augustine . – Not surprisingly, after all this time, when the foundation of the city, which was to become the head of the earthly city, of which we speak, and reign over so many nations, was in its own way an imitation of the first instance, or, as the Greeks, archetype. For here, as mentions the wickedness one of their poets, “the first walls, alas, are stained with the blood of brotherly»

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This is how Rome was founded, according to the testimony of the Roman history of the murder of his brother Remus Romulus. The difference lies only in the fact that both of them were citizens of the earthly city. Both sought to establish the glory of the Roman republic; but both of them together could not have the glory of what could be one of them, if there was one. For who wants to become famous his domination, dominated by the less than a large number of partners shared their power. So, to have all the power one was killed comrade in their hands, and thereby increased wickedness of the worst kind that, without being tainted by a crime, it would be less, but better. And those brothers, Cain and Abel did not have the same desire for earthly things, and the one that killed his brother, not because envied him that his reign would be less if they both dominated (since Abel did not seek domination in the City of who founded his brother); he was jealous of the devil’s envy what evil people are jealous of the good only because those are kind, while they – evil …

The founding Rome, surviving brother -bliznets harnessed to a plow with a cow and a bull plowed furrow. This furrow called Pomer, and that it marked the sacred line of the city walls.

«History does not tell us how to feel Romulus, slaying his only brother but perhaps not by chance priests, who in later years periodically running around Pomeroy thereby ensure the fertility of the Roman Stud and Roman women were called Luperci, ie, “brotherhood of the wolf” – says Robert Hughes

First, Romulus was the only resident of the newly founded city, but soon he decided to invite the dregs of society -. murderers, escaped slaves , exiles. Later, the hill on which find shelter these scum, will be called the Capitol. On Capitol Hill will be built Capitoline temple, where the Senate meeting will take place and public meetings

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The legend of the runaway slaves and killers, according to historians, says that Rome was not created an ethnically homogeneous nation.

In the first years in Rome did not have enough of the fair sex, and then Romulus decided to arrange a holiday in honor of the god-caretaker reserves Konsa grain. On the feast came Sabina (Italic group of people). At a time when all the guests were passionate about games, Romulus gave his men a sign, and they attacked the guests and took their women. During the commotion to profit himself Romulus – he grabbed Sabine women hersilia that soon married. Curiously, later began to think that the wedding ritual of bride kidnapping was the Roman custom of it since then.

According to legend, after Romulus hersilia death came to him in the grave, and at this time from the sky down a star and lit her hair, leaving a widow she has become a star and rose to the sky.