According to a fascinating legend, Romolo and Remo were the children of the God Marte and Rea Silva, who was the daughter of the king of Alba Longa Numitore. Numitore was deposed by his brother Amulio who forced Rea Silva to do vow of chastity.
King Amulio who knew of the birth of Romolo and Remo became furious and ordered to kill the children, but the servant who had to kill them wasn't so corageous to do that ; so he decided to put the children in a basket and leave them in the river Tevere. The basket who was pushed by the current, after some time stopped in an area which is the actual Palatino . Here children were found by a she-wolf that brought them with her till when a shepherd whose name was Faustolo found them and he brought them at home and he raised them. When they grew up Romolo and Remo came back to Alba Longa where they killed their uncle Amulio. Numitore became king again. The brothers decided to found a new town. A name for the town had to be chosen but neither Romolo nor Remo wanted to give up; so after a terrible quarrel Romolo killed Remo and the town was founded by Romolo who gave it his name and he himself became the first king of Rome.
King Amulio who knew of the birth of Romolo and Remo became furious and ordered to kill the children, but the servant who had to kill them wasn't so corageous to do that ; so he decided to put the children in a basket and leave them in the river Tevere. The basket who was pushed by the current, after some time stopped in an area which is the actual Palatino . Here children were found by a she-wolf that brought them with her till when a shepherd whose name was Faustolo found them and he brought them at home and he raised them. When they grew up Romolo and Remo came back to Alba Longa where they killed their uncle Amulio. Numitore became king again. The brothers decided to found a new town. A name for the town had to be chosen but neither Romolo nor Remo wanted to give up; so after a terrible quarrel Romolo killed Remo and the town was founded by Romolo who gave it his name and he himself became the first king of Rome.
salve! Ho cercato di tradurre dallo svedese italiano di Google Translate. di solito è di essere abbastanza male quando lo si fa, ma un sacco di divertimento! Spero tu stia bene e che è caldo nella scarpa lungo. quando eri piccolo hai sempre sapere che gli italiani sembrava un avvio e fu così che abbiamo imparato a riconoscere il paese. pretty cool;)
ReplyDeletehahahha, i translated the message from italian to swedish afterwards and i saw that it was quite difficult to understand anything :D what i was trying to say was that when you were little, you learned to recognize Italy thanks to the shoe/boot-shape. hope you enjoyed reading it anyway. i did ;)
ReplyDeleteHi! We had a nice class exercise reading this myth and then everybody had to write a short summary of what they remembered!
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/Karin (teacher)