Romulus, Remus, Tarquinius Priscus and Servius Tullius

Overview & Synopsis

This paper aims to study the origins of Rome from its name. According to the ancient idea, Romulus can't have been the mythical founder of Rome, which was to be called Romus or Remus in another way. Several elements lead us to believe that Romulus was a name given to Servius Tullius, and the myth of Romulus and Remus could show the fight between Servius Tullius and Tarquinius. Other arguments used to question the tradition of the first kings of Rome, which all seem to be redundancies of struggle between Rome and Vulci, which appears not to locate in the sixth century B.C., but in the fourth.