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Romulus: the Founder of Rome - Softcover

Plutarch; Church, Alfred J.

 
9781530838189: Romulus: the Founder of Rome
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1530838185 ISBN 13: 9781530838189
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Romulus is the legendary founder and the first king of Rome. Son of Mars by Rhea Silvia, daughter of King Numitor of Alba Longa, he was, so runs the myth, exposed with Remus, his twin-brother, at the foot of the Palatine hill, where he was suckled by a she-wolf, and afterward brought up by the shepherd Faustulus and his wife, Acca Laurentia. In 753 B. C. he founded his city on the Tiber, to which he invited all homeless fugitives in the surrounding country, who carried off Sabine maidens for their wives...

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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON has written extensively on both ancient Greek and military history; his ?fteen books include The Western Way of War and Between War and Peace. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno.

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Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1530838185
ISBN 13 
9781530838189
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
122