Quirinus
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In Roman mythology and religion, Quirinus is an early god of the Roman state. In Augustan Rome, Quirinus was also an epithet of Janus, Mars, and Jupiter.
Denarius picturing Quirinus on the obverse, and Ceres enthroned on the reverse, a commemoration by a moneyer in 56 BCE of a Cerealia presented by an earlier Gaius Memmius as aedile
Denarius of 126 BCE; on the right is the flamen Quirinalis with QVIRIN on his shield.
Romulus
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Romulus was the legendary founder and first king of Rome. Various traditions attribute the establishment of many of Rome's oldest legal, political, religious, and social institutions to Romulus and hi
Quirinus
…influences from classical Greek culture. By the time of the poet Ennius in the 2nd century, Quirinus was considered the deified legendary first king, Romulus. In his Life of Romulus, Plutarch wrote that, shortly after Rome's founder had disappeared under what some considered suspicious circumstances, a Roman…
Romulus and his twin brother Remus from a 15th-century frieze, Certosa di Pavia
A statue of a She-wolf depicts the twins suckling.
Romulus dedicating the temple to Jupiter Feretrius