LEGENDS+OF+THE+KINGSHIP+PERIOD


 * __WRITE A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THESE ROMAN LEGENDS__:

1. __HOW AENEAS FOUNDED THE ROMAN PEOPLE__:** 2. __THE BIRTH AND RESCUE OF ROMULUS AND REMUS__:** Romulus and Remus were the sons of Rhea Silva. She was a Vestal Virgin so when her two sons were born, King Amulius wanted them disposed of. Luckily, a wolf found the infants, who had been exposed at the Tiber river, and took care of them until a shepherd named Faustulus found them. Faustulus adopted them and raised them. (kbe)
 * Aeneas was a great war hero of the Trojan War. During the war, he fled to the island of Lavinia and married the princess Lavinium. Togeather they had a boy named Ascanius; he founded the city of Alba Longa and is an ancestor of Romulus and Remus.(kms)

The Romans believed that Romulus had founded Rome, from whom the name of the city was derived. (ljo)
 * 3. __THE FOUNDING OF ROME__:**


 * 4. __THE DEATH OF REMUS__:** Remus became angry when Romulus claimed the gods had given him the authority to be king, so he jumped the low wall of his brother's city, and Romulus promptly killed him. (kmu)


 * 5. __THE RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN__:

6. __THE TREACHERY OF TARPEIA__:

7. __THE DUEL OF THE HORATII AND THE CURIATII__:** The Horatii were a set of male triplets from Rome who decided the outcome of a war between Rome and Alba Longa by fighting and defeating a group of male triplets from Alba Longa, the Curiatii. During the battle, the Curiatii were all wounded and two of the Horatii were killed. The last of the Horatii then killed each of the Curiatii one by one. (pgei)


 * 8. __THE SYBILLINE BOOKS__

9. __THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA__

10. __THE OVERTHROW OF TARQUINIUS SUPERBUS__

11. __LARS PORSENA and CAIUS MUCIUS SCAEVOLA__

12. __HORATIUS COCLES__**