Romulus & Remus
The twins who founded Rome — and the brother who killed his brother.
Sons of Mars, they were abandoned in the river and survived on the milk of a she-wolf.
Quarreling over where to found their city, Romulus killed Remus and named the city Rome, after himself.
The Romans dated their founding to 753 BC — and they never erased the fratricide at the beginning of their own founding myth.
SourcesLivy, History of Rome; Plutarch, Parallel Lives