Ready for another one?

[rayb]

What da heck is this. Where is it located?

[rollerdonna]

My guess is Remus and Romleus (sp?) suckling the she-wolf, and somewhere in Rome?

donna

[Phil&Liz]

Rome or Greece

[DougR.]

I agree with RD, its in Rome

[katlady]

Pallazio Del Conservatori in Rome, Italy, however a replica if this sculpture was presented to Rome, Georgia in 1929 th brass plaque that says:
"This statue of the Capitolene Wolf, as a forecast of prosperity and glory, has been sent from Ancient Rome to New Rome during the consulship of Benito Mussolini in the year 1929."

[rayb]

Lets end this. I will not be posting anymore for awhile. Cruise coming up you know.

Before their lives began, Romulus and Remus' grandfather Numitor and his brother Amulius, descendants of fugitives from Troy, received the throne of Alba Longa upon their father’s death. Numitor received the sovereign powers as his birthright while Amulius received the royal treasury, including the gold Aeneas brought with him from Troy.
Because Amulius held the treasury, thus having more power than his brother, he dethroned Numitor as the rightful king. Out of fear that Numitor’s daughter, Rhea Silvia, would produce children that would one day overthrow him as king, he forced Rhea to become a Vestal Virgin, a priestess sworn to abstinence. She was discovered to be pregnant nevertheless[4] She bore the twin boys, as told, of remarkable size and beauty, later named Romulus and Remus. Amulius was enraged and ordered Rhea and the twins killed. Accounts vary on how; in one account, he had Rhea buried alive (the standard punishment for Vestal Virgins who violated their vow of celibacy) the death of the twins by exposure; In another, he ordered Rhea thrown in the Tiber with the twins.
The servant ordered to kill the twins could not, however, and placed the two in a cradle and laid the cradle on the banks of the Tiber river and went away. The river, which was in flood, rose and gently carried the cradle and the twins downstream.[5]

Altar from Ostia showing the discovery of Romulus and Remus (now at the Palazzo Massimo).
Romulus and Remus were kept safe by the river deity Tiberinus, who made the cradle catch in the roots of a fig tree growing in the Velabrum swamp, which therefore has a high symbolic significance. He then brought the infant twins up onto the Palatine Hill. There, they were nursed by a wolf, Lupa in Latin, a designation also used for female prostitutes and for priestesses of a wolf goddess, leading to an alternative theory that the "wolf" was human. They were nurtured underneath a fig-tree and were fed by a woodpecker. Both animals were sacred to Mars.

[mehawk]

Have a great time on the cruise...