The Kings of Rome
The Ancients
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Is Romulus a Great Influence on Numa?
Numa is reported to be wandering in the forests by night, taking advice from a woman. Is this a device to just legitimize his ways of doing things? Or, you know, is he somehow a little bit touched in the head? I'm not really sure, but it's kind of a beautiful sort of connection to the divine and that this story brings where it's not just about Numa being philosophical himself. He actually does have genuine relationships with divine beings that inform his practice and the way that he does things.
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