Amulius
In Roman mythology, Amulius is the younger son of Proca and the fourteenth king of Alba Longa .
He overthrew his older brother Numitor Silvius from the throne and made his daughter Rhea Silvia a vestal virgin - as a priestess of Vesta she had to live in chastity from then on, and so Numitor should not have any offspring. Rhea Silvia gave birth but despite their vows of Mars , the twins Romulus and Remus . She was sentenced to death for this. He abandoned the twins on the Tiber River , but the river god Tiberinus saved them by washing them against a branch. A she-wolf, sacred to Mars, suckled the two of them until a shepherd named Faustulus found them.
After Numitor Silvius realized that the two children who grew up with the shepherd Faustulus were his grandchildren, he went with them to the royal palace of Alba Longa and overthrew his brother Amulius from the throne, who was killed in the process.
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- Titus Livius Ab urbe condita 1,3.
- Ovid Metamorphoses 14, 609-621. Fasti 4 Praefatio.
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus Antiquitates Romanae 1.71.
literature
- Amulius, King of the Albanians. Tragedy in 5 record. (from --- pseud. Falkenberg.) Andreas Ritter von Buzzi, 1845 | Austrian National Library
- Elimar Klebs : Amulius 1) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Sp. 1989.
- Conrad Trieber: On the criticism of Eusebios. I. The King's Table from Alba Longa. In: Hermes 29th Vol., H. 1 (1894), pp. 124-142.
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to the list of Livy.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Proca |
King of Alba Longa 796 to 754 BC Chr. |