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LESSON 1 · Rise & Fall of Rome

PAUSE TO THINK

Who raised the twins before they founded Rome?

A wolf, in the legend

The story says the infant brothers were abandoned by the Tiber and suckled by a she-wolf, then taken in by a shepherd. That wolf became one of Rome's proudest emblems, cast in bronze and stamped on its coins.

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