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ROMAN ART
FEROCIOUS SHE WOLF TURNS TOWARD us with a vicious snarl. Her tense body thin flanks and protruding ribs contrast with her heavy, milk filled teats. Incongruously, she suckles two active chubby little boys. We are looking at the most famous symbol of Rome: the legendary wolf who nourished and saved the city's founder Romulus and his twin brother Remus. According to a Roman legend, the twin sons of the god Mars and a mortal woman were left to die on the banks of the Tiber River by their wicked uncle. A she-wolf discovered the infants and nursed them in place of her own pups the twins were later raised by a shepherd. When they reached adulthood the twins decided to build a city near the spot where the wolf had rescued them according to tradition in the year 753 ÂÑÅ.
This composite sculptural group of wolf and boys suggests the complexities of art history on the Italian peninsula. An early people called Etruscans created the bronze wolf about 500 ÂÑÅ......

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