The Kingdom · event
The Founding of Rome — Romulus & Remus
Placeholder: the first lesson. Rome's founding legend, and what archaeology says about it.
753 BC — traditional date, 21 April 753 BC (Varro's reckoning)Palatine Hill, RomeRomeGovernmentDraft
The hook
The story
What we actually know
The Catholic thread
Still standing
Teach it back
Sources
- Primary source History of Rome, Book 1 (Ab Urbe Condita), Livy
- Primary source Life of Romulus, Plutarch
- Primary source City of God, Book XV, Augustine of Hippo
Compares Romulus killing Remus to Cain killing Abel.
- Primary source Sermon 82 (Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul), Leo the Great
Presents Peter and Paul as Rome's true founders, in place of Romulus and Remus.
- Scholarship The Beginnings of Rome, T. J. Cornell (1995)