[Lost_Warrior]

I think some of it might be truth...and quite a bit of it is highly unlikely.

[Ursus]

Legends regarding divine twins are prevalent throughout Eurasia, and most likely had a common origin in the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) homeland.

The word for twin in the reconstructed proto-Indo-European language was *yem- or *yemos …. In proto-Italic this grew into *iemus, and by the time of archaic Latin this morphed into Remus. Remus therefore literally means twin, and Romulus means “little Rome.”

In the original story, according to reconstructed PIE theories, the first twin called *Man sacrificed and carved up his brother *Yemos (Twin) to produce mankind.

The Italic offshoots of the PIE people changed the story a little bit – Romulus (little Rome) kills Remus (twin) in the dual over the founding of the city of the seven hills. Later a separate legend regarding Aeneas and survivors of the Trojan War was added as a prelude.

For you Germanic pagan types, another offshoot of the story is how Odin killed the giant Ymir and from his body created the world and mankind. Ymir is a linguistic descendant of *yem.

So I think it’s all mythology, but its rooted in an extremely ancient motif.

[Hamilcar Barca]

I'm not to well read on the founding of Rome, need to look into it.

[Hamilcar Barca]

*double post*

[Zeke]

Yeah I think it was true but most likely the two were Indo-European Shepards who came from the North and married into the Aneian blood line....if Aneas accually existed.

Zeke

[Lacertus]

I think it is a beautiful legend. Even Plutarch spoke about Romul as about the hero of a legend, but tried to make his more real. Actually the similar history is at many nations. (At Russian, for example, one of the versions of Kiev's foundation).

[pompeius magnus]

I think there was a person named romulus, but he was most likely an migrant to the area, also this depends on your feelings towards Aeneas, which is most likely mythical. And divine twins are a recurring theme in Greek mythology as well. For example, Amphion and Zethus in one of the Theban founding stories.