The Alban king Aventinus was buried on the hill that would later become one of Rome's seven. The Aventine Hill thus bore the name of an Alba Longa king, binding Roman geography to the city's ancestral heritage.
The temple of Ceres, Liber, and Libera was dedicated on the Aventine Hill in 493 BCE, becoming the religious and political headquarters of Rome's plebeian class and the archive of their legislation.
The Palatine and Aventine Hills were the rival sites in the augury contest between Romulus and Remus. Romulus took auspices on the Palatine and prevailed, while Remus watched from the Aventine.
Remus chose the Aventine Hill as his preferred site for the new city and took his augury there, seeing six vultures before Romulus saw twelve on the Palatine, sparking the fatal dispute.
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