Romulus

Romulus is the legendary founder and first king of Rome, traditionally said to have reigned from 753 to 716 BC. According to the legend he was the son of the god Mars and the priestess Rhea Silvia, raised alongside his twin brother Remus after being suckled by a she-wolf, and tradition credits him with founding Rome's Senate, dividing its people into tribes, and establishing its legal, political, religious, and social institutions. Modern scholarship questions how much historical reality underlies the legendary figure; most historians consider his name a back formation from the name of the city rather than the reverse, though some scholars point to an ancient wall on the Palatine Hill, dated to the mid eighth century BC, as possible archaeological evidence connected to Rome's traditional founding era. Roman writers themselves disagreed on the exact dates, with the city's founding traditionally placed between 758 and 728 BC and Plutarch reporting 771 BC as Romulus's own birth year. Tradition holds that after a thirty seven year reign he vanished in a whirlwind and was afterward worshipped as the god Quirinus. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/