- Lupa.
According to legend,
Faustulus carried the
babies back to his
sheepfold for his wife Acca
Larentia to
nurse them.
Faustulus and Acca
Larentia then raised...
- and
nursed them in
front of her lair (the Lupercal). Amulius'
servant Faustulus happened upon the scene. He took the boys home and
brought them up with...
-
suckled by a she-wolf at the
Lupercal before being raised by the
shepherd Faustulus,
taking revenge on
their usurping great-uncle Amulius, and
restoring Alba...
-
Larentia was the wife of the
shepherd Faustulus. And
after Romulus and
Remus were
thrown into the
Tiber river,
Faustulus brought them back to his home, where...
-
suckled by a she-wolf
until they are
found by the
shepherd Faustulus.
Reared by
Faustulus and his wife, the
twins later become leaders of a band of young...
- in a cave now
known as the Lupercal. Eventually, they were
adopted by
Faustulus, a shepherd. They grew up
tending flocks,
unaware of
their true identities...
- twins, and
suckled them
until they were
found by the king's herdsman,
Faustulus, and his wife, Acca Larentia. The
brothers grew to
manhood among the shepherds...
- cave
known as the Lupercal,
until they were
discovered by a shepherd,
Faustulus.
Romulus would later become the
founder and
first king of Rome. The image...
- the she-wolf who
suckled them
until they were
rescued by the
shepherd Faustulus. Luperci, the
priests of Faunus,
celebrated certain ceremonies of the...
- the Tiber.
There they were
nurtured by the she-wolf and
discovered by
Faustulus. The tree was
sacred to Rumina, one of the
birth and
childhood deities...
