Romulus and Remus.
Story of the first Roman King "Romulus" and how he start Rome.
Romulus and Remus were twin brothers. When they were babies theirs parents put them into a basket and then placed into the River Tiber, left them to die. The basket ran towards ground and a something interesting happened in this story, a she-wolf found them and took care a short time before they were found by a shepherd. The shepherd brought up the twins. When the twins grew up they came back to the wonderful place by the river where they had almost died and they decided to build a new city. Romulus built his settlements on the Palatine hill and Remus built on the Aventine hill in about 750 BC, so that the others who were homeless they might have a place to live. At first it was a tiny village, surrounded by lots of little villages. Remus grew jealous of Romulus and mocked the size of the walls he had built, so Romulus killed him. Then he named the city after himself as "Rome" and was a crowned king. King Romulus found himself ruling a Rome with too few women (however not enough wives for all men) is impossible and so Romulus decided to steal women from the Sabines, an Italian tribe. He proclaimed a festival and many of the neighbouring Sabines women were invited. In the festival Romulus and his Romans rushed in and carried off the women for their true intentions, taking possession of the unmarried Sabine women by force and claiming them as brides. which became the famous "Rape of the Sabine women" in history.Then the Sabine men were furious and led war on Romulus. The Sabine town was ruled by king Titus Tatius. When the fighting had reached its peak, the Sabine women, who had grown fond of their Roman husbands, rushed between the ranks and begged both sides to make peace. So the battle was stopped, Romulus and Titus Tatius ruled together over the two peoples until. After some time Titus Tatius was killed in battle. For the rest of his life Romulus ruled alone, proving himself a great leader in peace and war. He did not die but disappeared one day at the age of 54 in a violent storm. While he was performing a ritual sacrifice to the gods at the river a thunderstorm struck. The people ran for cover from the rain, leaving Romulus and the senators Julius Proculus behind. When they returned Romulus had vanished. The Romans believing he had been taken up to heaven.
