Romulus - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• Romolo e Remo: a 1961 film starring Steve Reeves and Gordon Scott as the two brothers.
• The Rape of the Sabine Women: a 1962 film starring Wolf Ruvinskis as Romulus.
• In the Star Trek universe, Romulus and Remus are neighbouring planets with Remus being tidally locked to the star. Romulus is the capital of the Romulan Star Empire, which is loosely based on the Roman Empire.
• The novel Founding Fathers by Alfred Duggan describes the founding and first decades of Rome from the points of view of one of Romulus's Latin followers, a Sabine who settles in Rome as part of the peace agreement with Tatius, an Etruscan fugitive who is accepted into the tribe of Luceres after his own city is destroyed, and a Greek seeking purification from blood-guilt who comes to the city in the last years of Romulus' reign. The first three of these become senators. Romulus is portrayed as a gifted leader though a remarkably unpleasant person, chiefly distinguished by his luck; the story of his surreptitious murder by the senators is adopted, but although the story of his deification is fabricated, his murderers themselves think he may indeed have become a god. The novel begins with the founding of the city and the killing of Remus, and ends with the accession of Numa Pompilius.