Cathedral and column of the she- wolf and Aschius and Senius in Siena

by Patricia Hofmeester

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Cathedral and column of the she- wolf and Aschius and Senius in Siena

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Patricia Hofmeester

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Photograph - Photography

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Column with the she-wolf in front of the Duomo facade in Siena, Italy

According to a local legend, the city of Siena was founded by a pair of twins named Aschius and Senius, two sons of Remus. When they were very young, their wicked uncle murdered their father and usurped his throne, so they fled into the forest on two horses, one white and one black. There the two young boys survived by being suckled by a she-wolf, and when they grew up they founded a city called Siena, after Senius; they took the she-wolf as the symbol of their city, and the colors of the horses as their banner.

The story will sounds very familiar to people acquainted with Roman history, since it mimics in almost every detail the famous legend of the founding of Rome. Only the horses are lacking in the Roman version: Romulus and Remus, the heirs of the city of Alba Longa, were hunted from the city by their wicked great-uncle Amulius, who killed their grandfather Numitor and usurped his throne. Abandoned in the wilderness, they were suckled by a she-wolf, and when they grew up they founded the city of Rome.

According to the Roman legend, the twins then quarreled, and Romulus killed Remus -- which is where the two legends merge, because according to the Sienese, history repeated itself in the younger pair of twins. Aschius and Senius were the sons of Remus, who were forced to flee because their uncle Romulus had killed their father.

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