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The author speculates that the Aphrodite shrine near Rome may have been a "stepping-stone" (ibid) for Greek willingness to identify the twelfth century BC Aeneas, the sole survivor of the siege of Troy, and thus Phrygian Greece, with the also nearby, and third most prestigious shrine in Italy of the era, Juppiter Latiaris, and regard it as being founded by a descendant of Aeneas.
The author speculates that the Aphrodite shrine near Rome may have been a "stepping-stone" (ibid) for Greek willingness to identify the twelfth century BC Aeneas, the sole survivor of the siege of Troy, and thus Phrygian Greece, with the also nearby, and third most prestigious shrine in Italy of the era, Juppiter Latiaris, and regard it as being founded by a descendant of Aeneas.
==Timeline==
==Timeline==
::*539 BC: Liberation of Judea from destruction of Babylon
::*539 BC: Liberation of Judea from destruction of Babylon
::*'''Lucius Tarquinius Superbus''' (535 to 509 BC)
::*'''Lucius Tarquinius Superbus''' (535 to 509 BC)
== Romulus and Remus ==
According to legend recounted by Cassius Dio through a derivative work by Johannes Tzetzes, [[Romulus and Remus]] were the twin sons of Mars, the god of war, by the daughter of a prior Latin king named [[Numitor]], who was cast out of the land by another king named [[Amulius]], the other king having received an oracle that he would be slain by descendants of Numitor.
Romulus and Remus were rescued from the mighty [[Tiber River]] by a daughter of Amulius who sent the two boys to be raised by a shepherd couple, with other derivations of the story relating it was a mother wolf who nursed them back to health and raised them. In 753 BC, Romulus and Remus founded the city of Rome.<ref>Spodek, Howard. ''The World's History''. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006. 163-164.</ref> Romulus
killed Remus in a heated community debate on where the base of the city should be built. Romulus is considered the city's first king.
==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==