Amulius
mythological figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
King Amulius
in the texts
Romulus
Usurping king of Alba who deposes Numitor, orders the infant Romulus and Remus killed, and is eventually overthrown and killed by them.
Amulius divided the whole inheritance into two parts, setting the treasures and the gold which had been brought from Troy over against the kingdom, and Numitor chose the kingdom.
And when Remus incited the citizens within the city to revolt, and at the same time Romulus attacked from without, the tyrant, without taking a single step or making any plan for his own safety, from sheer perplexity and confusion, was seized and put to death.
Wherefore Amulius was all the more afraid, and ordered a servant to take the boys and cast them away.
On the Commonwealth
King of Alba who ordered Romulus and Remus exposed and was later killed by Romulus
Who, born of his father Mars (for let us grant the report of men—especially one not only of old standing, but also wisely handed down by our ancestors, that men well-deserving of the common good should be thought to be of divine descent, and not only of divine genius)—he, then, as soon as he was born, with his brother Remus, is said to have been ordered by Amulius, king of Alba, through fear of th …
Comparison of Theseus and Romulus
Tyrant of Alba who kept Romulus in servitude and under threat of punishment, later slain by Romulus.
whereas Romulus could not be without trouble while Amulius lived.