8 May 2024

Myth Takes: The birth of Rome

From Nights, 9:15 pm on 8 May 2024

Classics enthusiast and educator Ben Jackson is back and tonight we're celebrating a birthday - Rome's birthday.

Rome was allegedly founded on 21 April, 753 BCE, by brothers Romulus and Remus.

A bronze statue of a she-wolf depicts with twins Romulus and Remus suckling.

According to Roman mythology Rome was allegedly founded on the twenty-first of April, 753 BCE, by brothers Romulus and Remus. Photo: Creative Commons