ROMULUS

History, Myth, and the Birth of Rome

By: Geraldo Leal

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

This book retraces the origins of Rome by closely following the path laid down by the great ancient sources. It is neither a work of narrative fiction nor a product of modern speculation: it presents the story of the founder as it was transmitted by Livy, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Plutarch.

From the Trojan roots of Aeneas to the dynastic crisis of Alba Longa, from the fate of Rhea Silvia to the tracing of the sacred furrow on the Palatine, the author reconstructs each decisive stage in the formation of Rome. The work examines the emergence of the earliest institutions, the role of the Senate, the conflicts with neighbouring peoples, and the mysterious disappearance of Romulus, restoring for the reader the original force of a narrative that shaped the identity of an entire civilisation. An essential work for readers who demand the rigour of serious historical non-fiction and wish to understand Rome’s foundational myth through the documentation left by the historians of antiquity.