The First King

A city begins with a dream—but every dream demands a sacrifice.With Alba Longa behind them, Romulus and Remus return to the banks of the Tiber to found a new settlement of their own. Yet as omens are read and ambitions collide, the bond that carried them from infancy to destiny is shattered. From tragedy emerges a city unlike any the ancient world has ever known.Romulus becomes Rome's first king, raising its walls, opening its gates to exiles and outcasts, and laying the foundations of a people whose influence will one day span continents. But a city without families cannot survive, and Rome's greatest challenge is still to come.Drawing from the accounts of Livy, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Plutarch, and other Roman traditions, this episode tells the legendary founding of Rome and the difficult choices that shaped its earliest days. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.