Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Romulus (/ ˈ r ɒ m j ʊ l ə s /, Classical Latin: [ˈroːmʊɫʊs]) was the legendary founder and first king of Rome.Various traditions attribute the establishment of many of Rome's oldest legal, political, religious, and social institutions to Romulus and his contemporaries.
By the time of the Pyrrhic War (280–275 BC), there were some sixty different myths for Rome's foundation that circulated in the Greek world. Most of them attributed the city to an eponymous founder, usually "Rhomos" or "Rhome" rather than Romulus. [88] [89] One story told how Romos, a son of Odysseus and Circe, was the one who founded Rome. [90]
The celeres (Latin: [ˈkɛɫ̪ɛre:s], Ancient Greek: κελέριοι [1]) were the bodyguard of the kings of Rome and the earliest cavalry unit in the Roman military. [2] [3] [4] Traditionally established by Romulus, the legendary founder and first King of Rome, the celeres comprised three hundred men, [2] [5] ten chosen by each of the curiae.
This is a list of the dynasties that ruled the Roman Empire and its two succeeding counterparts, the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire.Dynasties of states that had claimed legal succession from the Roman Empire are not included in this list.
Traditions developed in Siena, which can not be documented prior to the 16th century hold that after Romulus murdered their father during the Foundation of Rome, Senius (who gave his name to the city) and his brother Aschius were forced to flee Rome on horseback, riding respectively on a black horse and a white one, giving rise to the colors on ...
Agrippa Silvius from Nuremberg chronicles. In Greco-Roman mythology, Agrippa (said to have reigned 914-873 BC) [1] (/ ə ˈ ɡ r ɪ p ə /) was a descendant of Aeneas and King of Alba Longa, the capital of Latium, southeast of Rome.
Hut of Romulus, the mythical dwelling of the first king of Rome; Romulus (Star Trek), the fictional homeworld of the Romulans in Star Trek Weyland-Yutani Romulus, a fictional space station, a component space station with WY Remus in the compound station WY Renaissance; one of the primary settings of the 2024 film Alien: Romulus
Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes: Eastern influences on Rome and the papacy from Gregory the Great to Zacharias, A.D. 590–752. Lexington Books. Gregorovius, Ferdinand. History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages. Fields, Nic (2007). The Roman Army of the Punic Wars 264–146 BC. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84603-145-8.