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Rhea Silvia portrayed on a Sarcophagus. Rhea (or Rea) Silvia (Latin: [ˈreːa ˈsɪɫu̯ia]), also known as Ilia, [1] (as well as other names) [a] was the mythical mother of the twins Romulus and Remus, who founded the city of Rome. [3] [4] This event was portrayed numerous times in Roman art. [5]
Italiano: Affresco con le Origini di Roma, da Pompei dalla Casa di Marcus Fabius Secundus (V, 4, 13), oggi al Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (inv. S.N.).Marte, armato, scende in volo verso Rhea Silvia addormentata su di un prato.
According to Rome's foundation myth, prior to the founding of the city, Rhea Silvia had her twin sons, Romulus and Remus, taken by the King of Alba Longa.The boys were later discarded in the swelling Tiber River, which would later run along the Campus' western boundary.
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Rhea Silvia, a mythological vestal virgin and mother of the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus Rheasilvia / ˌ r iː ə ˈ s ɪ l v i ə / is the largest impact crater on the asteroid Vesta . It is 505 km (314 mi) in diameter, which is 90% the diameter of Vesta itself, and is 95% the mean diameter of Vesta, 529 km (329 mi).
Mars and Rhea Silvia (1617) by Rubens Mars and Rhea Silvia is a 1617 painting by Peter Paul Rubens , now in the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna . It shows Mars 's rape of Rhea Silvia , which resulted in the birth of Romulus and Remus , founders of Rome.
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