This is how “The Exorcist” started................
But what if it isn’t???? not many folks go to the trouble of burying an empty coffin.
And someone founded and built the city. It did not spring up from the ground like a mushroom.
600 BC is pretty far back. They thought they were descendants of Trojans who escaped the destruction of Troy.
What would have been more interesting would have been if Romulus was in it.
I had the opportunity to walk around the roman ruins when i was active duty in the 1970’s. Very amazed.
Troy was once considered mythical by many.
The story I heard was that one day in 716 B.C., Romulus disappeared in a cloud of smoke, and his soldiers figured that the god Mars had taken him away. If there is any truth to this, he could have been struck by lightning or a meteor. But either way, I don’t think there would have been much left of him, maybe nothing at all, to put in the sarcophagus.
It is just stunning how active and enlightened the western world was around 550 BC and thereabouts. Just an amazing time from everything we know about it. There were massive leaps in every field of endeavor from art to trade to warfare. I would love to know how this happened seemingly all at once.
Oh I get it... “who’s buried in Romulus’ Tomb” was a gag in the Imperial-period?
Ping.
Most “myths” (apart from today’s myth of human induced climate change) are based on real people and events. They may be embellished over time with exaggeration and mystical nonsense, but there’s almost always a kernel of truth behind them. Romulus and his brother Remus probably existed. And finding a sarcophagus with the former’s name on it is at least very interesting.
Anyone remember the S. Gross (National Lampoon) cartoon on Romulus and Remus?
“Romulus will go on to found Rome. Remus is gay.”
Thankfully I don’t find an image of it online...
BFL
Should Geraldo schedule another prime time opening show? :)
Ahem.
55 inch ?
I had heard that Romans were on the short side ....
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Romeo didn’t found Rome?