Dolf van der Haven’s Reviews > The History of Rome, Vol 1: The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy > Status Update

“...the story of the foundation of Rome by refugees from Alba under the leadership of the sons of an Alban prince, Romulus and Remus, is nothing but a naive attempt of primitive quasi-history to explain the singular circumstance of the place having arisen on a site so unfavourable, and to connect at the same time the origin of Rome with the general metropolis of Latium.”