Two Romes

One would have quickly absorbed the other, simple as that.


Worth mentioning: Romulus and Remus are semi-mythological characters: they probably never existed. And according to the legend (at least the most common version) Romulus killed Remus over a disagreement on where to found the city. They never created two.
 
Rome probably doesn't become the world power that we know. The butterflies from this will greatly change the Mediterranean. Then again, a lot of people think Remus wasn't a real person.
 
Rome was originally made of several little settlements that slowly coalesced in one urban settlement. Of course the legend of Romulus and Remus was just one of many which proved to be more popular than most, as Plutarch’s several accounts on the founding of Rome prove in his Life Of Romulus.
 
This question is kind of like asking "What if Seleucus wasn't sired by Apollo but by a mere mortal?"

It's a founding myth key to the state that invented it and it says a lot about their culture but nothing about history.
 
Rome was originally made of several little settlements that slowly coalesced in one urban settlement. Of course the legend of Romulus and Remus was just one of many which proved to be more popular than most, as Plutarch’s several accounts on the founding of Rome prove in his Life Of Romulus.
Thanks but what I meant is what if two cities were founded in the Palatine and Aventine hill like in the legend
 
Thanks but what I meant is what if two cities were founded in the Palatine and Aventine hill like in the legend
They would merge, or one will conquer the other. They are too close to remain independent for a long stretch of time.
 
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