Romulus ruled as the first king of Rome for nearly four decades, establishing its laws, institutions, Senate, and military organization before his apotheosis.
Romulus founded Rome on the Palatine Hill, plowing the sacred pomerium and building the first walls of the city after killing Remus.
Aeneas carried the Penates from burning Troy to the shores of Latium, fulfilling the divine mandate that his wanderings would plant the seed from which Rome and its eternal empire would grow.
Jupiter revealed to Venus that Rome's destiny was imperium sine fine — dominion without end. The king of the gods decreed that from Aeneas's line would rise a city whose power would have no boundary in space or time.
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