WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Rhea Silvia is a woman from Roman mythology . In the legend about the founding of Rome, is the mother of the twin brothers Romulus and Remus. She was the daughter of Numitor Silvius, king of the city Alba Longa.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to Livy’s account of the legend, she was the daughter of Numitor, king of Alba Longa, and descended from Aeneas. Numitor’s younger brother Amulius seized the throne and killed Numitor’s son, then forced Rhea Silvia to become a Vestal Virgin, a priestess of the goddess Vesta.

Detailed explanation-3: -Nevertheless, Rhea bore the twins Romulus and Remus, fathered by the war god Mars. Amulius ordered the infants drowned in the Tiber River, but the trough in which they were placed floated down the river and came to rest at the site of the future Rome, near the Ficus ruminalis, a sacred fig tree of historical times.

Detailed explanation-4: -In Roman mythology, King Numitor (Classical Latin: [ˈnʊmɪtɔr]) of Alba Longa, was the maternal grandfather of Rome’s founder and first king, Romulus, and his twin brother Remus. He was the son of Procas, descendant of Aeneas the Trojan, and father of the twins’ mother, Rhea Silvia, and Lausus.