Aim What life lessons can we learn from

Aim: What life lessons can we learn from the myth of Romulus and Remus? Do Now: Who was Aeneas? What was his great mission? HW: Vocabulary Quiz Thursday LHS Meeting Thursday at 2: 30 in Room 202

When Aeneas married Lavinia, he became king of Alba Longa

Numitor, a descendant of Aeneas, also became king

Numitor was usurped by his younger brother Amulius

Amulius forced Numitor’s daughter to become a Vestal Virgin Who were the Vestal Virgins? What was their job? Why would this be in Amulius’s interest?

Rhea Silvia became pregnant

Amulius ordered the death of the twin boys: Romulus and Remus • Instead of killing them himself, he ordered a servant to throw them into the Tiber river

Doesn’t the name Remus sound familiar?

The servant took pity on the boys • He placed them in a basket onto the Tiber River • The river god Tibernus calmed the river and caused the basket to catch in the roots of a fig tree • The tree was located at the base of the Palatine Hill

A she-wolf discovered the boys and offered them her milk • Hmm what do wolves and Remus Lupin have in common?

The boys were soon discovered and adopted by a shepherd and his wife • The boys grew up to become shepherds, unaware of their royalty

One day the boys encountered a bunch of King Amulius’s shepherds • Remus was taken before King Amulius as prisoner

King Amulius, believing Romulus and Remus to be dead, did not recognize them

Romulus freed his brother, killed Amulius and restored Numitor to the throne • The boys set out to found their own city

As often happens with siblings, they just can’t agree… • Romulus- wanted to found the city on the Palatine Hill • Remus- wanted to found the city on the Aventine Hill

Time to ask the birds

More disagreement… • Romulus claimed to have seen 12 birds • Remus claimed that he saw only 6 birds but that his birds appeared first

Romulus began building a wall around his hill • To anger his brother, Remus jumped over Romulus’s wall • This led to Remus’s death

Rome was founded on April 21 st 753 BCE • Romulus was the first king of Rome, beginning the Roman Monarchy