. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. Roman As (bronze, full size)a wolf suckling two babes. A fairly ancient copy of thismotive is preserved in the famous Capitoline Wolf.* The • Plate THE BEGINNINGS OF ROME wolf at least is ancient, and the children have been added inmodern times from representations of the famous group onancient coins. It is possible that the original statue may goback to days of totemistic religion when the wolf was theancestor of a Roman clan. The Seven Kings of Rome are for the most part merenames which have been fitted by ratio
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. Roman As (bronze, full size)a wolf suckling two babes. A fairly ancient copy of thismotive is preserved in the famous Capitoline Wolf.* The • Plate THE BEGINNINGS OF ROME wolf at least is ancient, and the children have been added inmodern times from representations of the famous group onancient coins. It is possible that the original statue may goback to days of totemistic religion when the wolf was theancestor of a Roman clan. The Seven Kings of Rome are for the most part merenames which have been fitted by rationalising antiquarians,presumably Greek, with inventions appropriate to is simply the patron hero of Rome called by hername. Numa, the second, whose name suggests numen, wasthe blameless Sabine who originated most of the old Romancults, and received a complete biography largely borrowedfrom that invented for Solon. Tullus Hostilius and AncusMartius were the hostile and viartial inventors of militarysystems. Servius Tullius was a man of servile origin, andon this foundation Freeman built his belief that the Romankingship was a career open to talent! As for the two Tarqulns, the latter of whom was turnedby Gree
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