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Ancient Rome

As indicated by legend, Ancient Rome was established by the two siblings, and demi-divine beings, Romulus and Remus, on 21 April 753. The legend guarantees that, in a contention over who might govern the city (or, in another form, where the city would be found) Romulus slaughtered Remus and named the city after himself. This account of the establishing of Rome is the best known however it is not alone. Different legends assert the city was named after a lady, Roma, who went with Aeneas and alternate survivors from Troy after that city fell. After arriving on the banks of the Tiber River, Roma and the other ladies protested when the men needed to proceed onward. She lead the ladies in the blazing of the Trojan boats thus adequately stranded the Trojan survivors at the site which would in the long run get to be Rome. Aeneas of Troy is highlighted in this legend furthermore, broadly, in Virgil's Aeneid, as an organizer of Rome and the predecessor of Romulus and Remus, therefore connecting Rome with the loftiness and might which was once Troy.