Romulus and Remus were the legendary founders of Rome, but according to ancient records, they were originally Greek.

For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to ...

a national epic honoring Rome and prophesying the rise of the Roman Empire. The hero, Aeneas, deliberately embodies the Roman ideals of loyalty to the state, devotion to family, and reverence for ...

Romans also believed that many of their gods had played an active part in the foundation of Rome. Venus was believed to be the mother of Aeneas, who according to legend had founded Rome ...

It’s a tale of Aeneas’s journey to the underworld; our plucky hero must cross the Styx, journey from Troy to Rome and then beat the Latins, notoriously the most difficult section in Strictly ...

According to Roman legend, the people of Rome were heirs of Troy, which the Greeks may have destroyed in 1184 BCE. The hero Aeneas was a member of the Trojan royal family, a second cousin of the ...

Legend has it that the son of Aeneas founded the city of Alba Longa ... them as if they were her own offspring, which is why Rome keeps the Capitoline she-wolf as its emblem.

Aeneas was the son of Venus, a goddess: therefore Rome, and her empire, are sanctioned by the heavens. That divine sanctioning of empire is what many leaders in the decades and centuries that ...