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``Romulus and Remus version 1 The Latins, Greeks and Etruscans were the first people to settle Rome. The history of Rome began in 753 BC when a basket, floating on the Tiber River, washed ashore at a place near seven hills. According to Roman mythology the basket carried twin infants, Romulus and Remus. Their mother was the daughter of a local king, and their father, appropriately, was Mars, the god of war. The villain was their uncle, who had set them adrift to prevent them from challenging his title to the throne. Fortunately for the brothers, a she-wolf found and nursed the infants. Later a shepherd discovered them and took them home, where he and his wife nurtured them. When they reached manhood, Romulus and Remus set things right by deposing their wicked uncle and replacing him on the throne with their grandfather. Then they built a city, choosing the Palatine Hill for its location. Romulus welcomed fugitives to his hill and provided wives by hosting a festival for a neighboring tribe, the Sabines, then seizing their women. The story of Romulus and Remus is fantastic and yet based on truth. Rome had humble beginnings in the myth, and indeed it did in reality. In the legend Rome had a war god in its lineage and wolf milk in its belly, implying that its citizens had a knack for warfare which they would prove again and again. ''