Rhomos () was in

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and

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a son of

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and

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.Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome
by Erich S. Gruen; published 1992 by

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He was said to have founded Rome. Xenagoras writes that Odysseus and Circe had three sons, Rhomos (),

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() and Ardeias (), who built three cities and called them after their own names (Rome,

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, and Ardea).Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 1.72.5
/ref> Martin P. Nilsson speculates that this foundation story became an embarrassment as Rome became more powerful and tensions with the Greeks grew. Being descendants of the Greeks was no longer preferable, so the Romans settled on the Trojan foundation myth instead. Nilsson further speculates that the name of Romos was changed by the Romans to the native name Romulus, but the name Romos (later changed to the native Remus) was never forgotten by the people, and so these two names came to stand side by side as founders of the city.

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References

* Dionysus of Halicarnassus, ''Roman Antiquities.'' English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937–1950
Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
* Dionysius of Halicarnassus, ''Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt'', ''Vol I-IV''. . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
* * Gruen, Erich S. (1992
Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome

* Characters in Roman mythology Mythological city founders Origin myths Children of Odysseus Romulus and Remus Children of Circe {{Greek-myth-stub