Again on Romulus and Remus: Cyrus and the founder’s legend

Authors

  • Antonio Cascón Dorado
Keywords: Romulus, legend, founding hero, literary transmission, Cyrus, twins, other versions

Abstract

Romulus’s legend is literary material that must be analysed mainly from a philological perspective, taking into account the special features of this type of narrative texts and are similar to those of myths, fables and the exemplum. It is another version of “the founder’s legend”, with elements which are typical of other texts narrating the founding of cities, nations and religions. Its proximity to Cyrus’s legend, mostly regarding its ending, leads us to attribute it to a Greek author who may have based it on the legend about the birth of this Persian king, but one needs to provide an explanation for the source of the differences between both legends, especially regarding their initial part.

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Published
09-03-2017
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Cascón Dorado, A. (2017). Again on Romulus and Remus: Cyrus and the founder’s legend. Myrtia, 31, 57–81. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/myrtia/article/view/286681
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