Legend of Rome

Legend of Rome

There are two legends related to the founding of Rome. One says that the founder was Aeneas, the Trojan warrior. But the more popular and colourful one, featured the twin brother, Romulus and Remus, who wee brought up by a she wolf.


The legend says that the date for the founding of Rome was fixed in April 753 BC. As was the custom, fires were lit and every man leaped through it to cleanse himself of evil. Then Romulus harnessed a white cow and a bull and ploughed a furrow through the lines of where the walls of the city were to be. Such lines wee considered sacred, and men could cross it only at the points where the gates were meant to be. But Remus, leaped over the furrow, exclaiming, ‘Will such defences as these keep your city’? Romulus struck Remus down for his disrespect and said ‘So let it happen to all those who pass over my walls’