Obituary of Romulus

Even at this age you could tell the twins had fate on their side. The twins grew up on Numitors farm. It was here that they hunted and learned the fighting skills that they would call upon later in life. As they grew up the boys began to ambush thieves, this continued to develop their fighting skills and also started to show their morality as they gave their money back to the poor. As word started to spread about the twins' heroism one day they were attacked by a gang of thieves and Remus was captured. When Remus was brought before him, Amulius ruled that he should be handed over to Numitor, as it was his land the twins were trespassing on. Soon enough Numitor discovered that Remus and his brother Romulus must be his grandsons and freed Remus. It was then the twins would show their true strength when they came together with two groups of men and Amulius was slain and Numitor rightfully returned to the throne to rule Alba Longa.

The twins' ambition began to show as they decided to found a new city in the area they grew up and because of the large population here they new it would be a grand city. But because the twins were the same age and each was determined that he was the rightful ruler of the city they couldn't agree who would be king.

A bitter rivalry began and the twins decided to let the Gods choose the king. It was decided that each twin should stand on a hill and watch the flight of birds. Remus stood on Aventine Hill and was the allegedly the first to see birds, he saw six vultures. Then as word almost reached Romulus he spotted twelve vultures from Palatine Hill. Again both twins and their followers couldn't agree who'd be king as Remus saw them first but Romulus saw twice as many. A fight broke out between the groups during which Remus was killed by his brother Romulus, this again shows how determined Romulus was to be king as he killed his own twin brother to do so.

Romulus was determined to make a success of his newly acclaimed city though his naivety began to show. His city was famed but under bad laurels, it was full of criminals, the city was also lacking one fundamental asset, women. For the sake of his city Romulus devised a cunning plan. He invited the people of the neighbouring town of Sabinum to a festival of the Sea-God Neptune. It was planned that at a given moment during the festival the Romans would snatch as many of the Sabine women as possible and then drive out the Sabine men. Romulus was willing to displease the gods, blaspheme even (by having the kidnapping taken place at Neptune's festival), to succeed. The Sabine women were each taken into marriage by Roman men and Romulus' compassion saw to it that the women were all treated well.

Before long the people of Sabinum declared war on Rome and looked to be on top until Romulus himself inspired his men with his great bravery in battle. Rome's men fought back and eventually it was the women of Sabinum by showing a great deal of trust and respect by saying they were happy. This proved a blessing for both cities as they joined together to make Rome greater and it began to prosper.

Overall Romulus was a very determined man and was very patriotic of Rome; you could see that Romulus always had Rome's interests at heart. Romulus proved the great heroism he was always destined for. Although Romulus did what some would see as bad things for Romans would see them as heroic and necessary for the future of Rome.