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Rhea Silva | mother of Romulus and Remus;daughter of Numitor |
Romulus | founded Rome in 753 B.C.; killed his brother; nursed by a she-wolf |
Numa Pompilius | second king of Rome; important religious and political institutions are attributed to him |
Ancus Marcius | fourth king of Rome; founded the city od Ostia; added the Janiculum hill to Rome |
Tarquinius Superbus | seventh and final king of Rome; proud, arrogant, lofty; led to the Roman Republic |
Tarquinus Priscus | fifth king of Rome from 616 to 579 BC |
Remus | twin brother of Romulus; killed by his brother; nursed by a she-wolf |
Sabine Women | invited to a festival once there the men were were attacked and killed and the women abducted and raped |
Tarquinius Sextus | raped Lucretia; was the son of Tranquinius Superbus |
Lucretia | noblewoman; raped by Sextus Tarquinius; killed herself |
Brutus | politian; killed Julius Caesar |
Faustulus | the shepherd who found Romulus and Remus with the wolf |
Numitor | King Numitor of Alba Longa, was the grandfather of Romulus and Remus. |
Aemilianus | Roman Emperor for three months in 253;victory against the Goths |
Collatinus | one of the first two consuls of the Roman Republic in 509 BC |
Horatius Cocless | an officer in the army; famously defended the Pons Sublicius from the invading army of Lars Porsena |
Mucius Scaevola | volunteered to kill Porsena; put his right hand into a blazing altar fire and holding it there until it was consumed to show courage |
Curtius Manlius | Hero; throw himself into a pit because seers said that it would not close untl some brave citizen closed it. |
Lars Porsena | Etruscan king known for his war against the city of Rome; ruled over the city of Clusium |
Servius Tullius | sixth kings of Rome; born a slave; married Tarquinus Priscus daughter. |
Tarpeia | daughter of commander during Sabine war; wanted golden bracelet; but instead got crushed with the Sabines people shields. |
Egeria | a nymph; divine consort and counselor of Numa Pompilius |
Tullus Hostilius | third king of Rome; defeated Alba Longa; died during the Sabine invasion of Rome |