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Romulus And Remus
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Legacy and Iconography
The iconography associated with Romulus and Remus is dominated by the figure of the she-wolf. However, scholarly debate persists regarding the physical appearance of the twins themselves.
Analysis of surviving terracotta molds from the late Republican period suggests that Romulus was consistently depicted with excessively wide shoulders and an unusually small cranium, interpreted by some as a physical manifestation of his overdeveloped sense of territorial ownershi…