她给孩子起名叫Romulus和Remus。孩子出生后没几天,RheaSyloia就被活埋了。人们把这两个男孩放入篮中置于Tiber河。篮子卷入溪流中,沿河岸顺流而下。孩子几个小时没被喂奶,开始啼哭。一只刚刚产下狼崽Cubo的母狼听到了啼哭。母狼把婴儿一个一个衔回窝。她救了他们的命,并把他们和自己的孩子一同喂养。一个农夫发现...
Rome's celebrated founders, Romulus and Remus, descended from Aeneas, a prince of Troy and survivor of the famous battle of Troy, which took place around the same time that Moses led Israel out of Egypt. This suggests that both Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid review the same happenings...
The story of Cain and Abel is suspiciously similar to that of Romulus and Remus, and it seems obvious that the two express the same fundamental human truth. Please see our article on the nameQuiriniusfor more details. Abel I meaning
Remus (Lupin) –Remus was the twin brother of Romulus (founder of Rome). The King sent the two twin babies out to a river and tried to drown them, but a female wolf, instead of killing them, nursed them after finding the two boys. Remus was later killed by Romulus. Riddle –A ridd...
Remus's twin and a founder of Rome. But parents attracted to this name are advised to read the legend first. Romulus does have some less than savory characteristics, including killing his twin brother and making Rome in his own image, and is later deified as Quinnius. Romy and Quinn might...
she is often depicted driving a chariot pulled by two lions. The mother of Romulus and Remus, and the mother of Hercules were both named Rhea after the goddess. The meaning of Rhea’s name is uncertain. It’s traditionally derived either from the Greek word for “ground”, or from “flo...
As far back as 700 B. C, man has talked about children being cared for by wolves. Romulus and Remus, the legendary(传说的)twin founders of Rome, were said to have been cared for by wolves. It is believed that when a she-wolf loses her litter, she tries to get human child to take...
The adjective silvestris or silvester means wooded or overgrown with forests, or simply denoted anything growing wild and uncultivated; hence the names Silvester, Silvius and Silvia. Notably, the name Rhea Silvia belonged to the birth mother of Romulus and Remus (by rapist father Mars), who were...
where he became the ancestor of Romulus and Remus, and thus the city of Rome, making the Roman Empire essentially a revived Trojan State. The Empire arose from the ashes of the Republic, which had set a course to its own demise with the fratricidal Punic Wars against Carthage, Rome's ...
In fact, there is as much resemblance between the Biblical story of Noah and the epic of Gilgamesh as there is between the story of Romulus and Remus and that of Cain and Abel (note the expulsion theme that dominates both stories, the act of fratricide, and the detail that Romulus turned...