Romulus and Remus were mythological twins that supposedly founded the city of Rome. When they were exposed as newborns, a wolf came across them and they suckled on it until a shepherd finally found them and reared them. (Remus Lupin the werewolf is named after this.) After gathering a group of shepherds together, they decided to build a city for them but couldn't decide exactly where, and Romulus killed Remus during the dispute, and named the town "Roma" after himself. Quickly realizing a bunch of shepherds does not make a city, he encouraged pretty much anyone to live there and ended up with a populace of exiled criminals, runaway slaves, and refugees. Consequently there were too many men and not enough women, so they decided to invite the neighboring Sabine tribe into Rome for a festival. At a prearranged signal all the Romans just basically grabbed the Sabine women and threw the men out. And that's how Rome began.

It's funny because we always hold Rome up to this ideal, but if this is the origin myth the Romans made, it makes you wonder how the Romans viewed themselves. Normally you want your founders to be people of moral probity, like how we view George Washington today. I haven't even talked about how the Republic was founded, which starts off with a prince raping a woman and she commits suicide from the shame. What the hell was wrong with these people? Then again, it's no Egyptian myth.