The twins, Romulus and Remus, are the main characters of Rome's foundation myth.
Their mother Rh'Ea Silvia, and also known as ILL'Ia, was daughter of Nu'Mit'Or, king of Alba Longa, and descended from A'Ene'As.
A'Ene'As was a Trojan hero, the son of the prince Anc'Hises and the goddess Ven'Us ((Aph'Rod'Ite).
A'Ene'As' father was a 1st cousin of king P'Riam of Troy, and both being grandsons of IL'Us, founder of Troy.
IL'Us was son and heir to Tros of Dar'Dan'Ia and brother of Ass'Ara'Cus and Gany'Mede. IL'Us won the wrestling price at games heldby the king of Ph'Ryg'Ia and received 50 youth and maidens as his reward. The king of Ph'Ryg'Ia also, on the advice of an oracle, gave him a 'cow' and asked him to found a city where 'it' should lie down.
Dar'Dan'Us was a son of Ze'Us and Elect'Ra, one of the 7 daughters of Atlas and Ple'Ione. Elect'Ra was the wife of Co'Ryth'Us, to whom she bore Ias'Ion. She was seduced by Ze'Us and from the union came Dardanus. She was the lost Ple'Iad, disappearing in grief after the destruction of Troy. She was called Atl'Ant'Is by Ovid, personifying the family of Ple'Iades. Elect'Ra means amber, shining, and bright. The founder of the city of Dardanus was her son at the foot of Mount Ida in the Troad.
Mount Ida (Mountain of the Goddess) is the name of 2 sacred mountains, one in Crete, the other in the ancient Troad region of Western Anatolia (modern Turkey). The one in Troas was also known as the Ph'Ryg'Ian Ida. Both are associated with the mother goddess in the deepest layers of pre-Greek myth.
In that mountain in Troas, sacred to Cybele, who is sometimes called Ida'Ean Mother, Rea, the Titaness daughter of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Uranus and sister and wife to Cronus, put the infant Zeus to nurse with A'Mal'The'Ia, the goat who suckled the infant-god in a cave in Goat Mountain. The place became sacred to Zeus, the king and father of Greek gods and goddesses.
Homer's Illiad mentions at several points the Tomb of ILL'Us son of Dardanus in the middle of the Trojan plain. Later writers explain him as the son and heir of Dardanus who died childless whence his brother E'Rich'Thoni'Us gained the kingship.
Rh'Ea' s father Nu'Mit'Or, son of Procas, descendant of Aeneas, was king of Alba Longa, a city in central Italy, in the Alban Hills, the site of a quiescent volcanic complex in Italy, 20km/12mi South East of Rome.
In 794BC Procas died and Nu'Mit'Or was meant to succeed his father. Instead he was overthrown and removed from the kingdom by his younger brother, A'Muli'Us, who had no respect for his father's will or his brother's seniority, A'Muli'Us also murdered his brother's son, in an effort to remove power from his brother for himself.
Nu'Mit'Or 's wife Rhea was made 'Vestal Virgin,' a priestess of the goddess Vesta, by A'Muli'Us. As Vestal Virgin Rhea sworn to celibacy for a period of 30 years, ensuring that the line of Nu'Mit'Or had no heirs. However she was forcible pregnant by Ze'Us (Mars), and gave birth to the twins, Nu'Mit'Or 's grandchildren Romulus and Remus. Rhea said that she was raped by an unknown entity, but soon after declared that Ze'U was the father of her illegitimate offspring, either because she really imagined it, or because it was less discreditable to have committed such an offense with a god.
When A'Muli'Us learned of the birth he imprisoned Rhea Silvia and ordered a servant to kill the twins. But the servant showed mercy and set them adrift on the River Tiber, which, overflowing, left the infants in a pool by the bank. There a she-wolf, who had just lost her own cubs, suckled them.
Subsequently Faus'Tul'Us rescued the boys, to be raised by his wife L'Arent'Ia.
The god of the Tiber River, Tiber'In'Us, rescued Rh'Ea Silvia and took her to be his bride.
Romulus and Remus went on to found Rome. The city was founded in 753BC on the banks of the Tiber about 25km/16mi from the sea at Ostia. Then they overthrew A'Muli'Us, and reinstated Nu'Mit'Or, their grand father as king of Alba Longa.
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