Romulus Augustulus

Examples of Romulus Augustulus in the following topics:

• Odoacer and the Fall of Rome

  • Odoacer was a Germanic soldier in the Roman army who deposed emperor Augustulus and became the first King of Italy, marking the end of the Western Roman Empire, the fall of ancient Rome, and the beginning of the Middle Ages in Western Europe.
  • Odoacer was a military leader in Italy who led the revolt of Herulian, Rugian, and Scirian soldiers that deposed Romulus Augustulus on September 4,  476.
  • Augustulus had been declared Western Roman Emperor by his father, the rebellious general of the army in Italy, less than a year before, but had been unable to gain allegiance or recognition beyond central Italy.
  • Orestes then proclaimed his young son Romulus the new emperor, Romulus Augustulus.
  • In 476 Odoacer advanced to Ravenna and captured the city, compelling the young emperor Romulus to abdicate on September 4.

• The Coronation of 800 CE

  • When Odoacer compelled the abdication of Romulus Augustulus, he did not abolish the Western Empire as a separate power, but caused it to be reunited with or sink into the Eastern, so that from that time there was a single undivided Roman Empire ...

• Justinian and Theodora

  • The end of the Western Empire is sometimes dated to 476, early in Zeno's reign, when the Germanic Roman general Odoacer deposed the titular Western Emperor Romulus Augustulus, but declined to replace him with another puppet.

• The Seven Kings

  • Despite this, Roman kings with the exception of Romulus were elected by citizens of Rome who occupied the Curiate Assembly.
  • Romulus was Rome's legendary first king and the city's founder.
  • In 753 BCE, Romulus began building the city upon the Palatine Hill.
  • After the ensuing war with the Sabines, Romulus shared the kingship with the Sabine king Titus Tatius.
  • Romulus selected 100 of the most noble men to form the Roman senate as an advisory council to the king.

• The Founding of Rome

  • The most familiar of these myths, and perhaps the most famous of all Roman myths, is the story of Romulus and Remus, the twins who were suckled by a she-wolf.
  • Romulus and Remus were purported to be sons of Rhea Silvia and Mars, the god of war.
  • When Remus and Romulus became adults and learned the truth about their birth and upbringing, they killed Amulius and restored Numitor to the throne.
  • They quarreled, however, over where to locate the new city, and in the process of their dispute, Romulus killed his brother.
  • The iconic sculpture of Romulus and Remus being suckled by the she-wolf who raised them.

• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

  • By 476 CE, when Odoacer deposed the Emperor Romulus, the Western Roman Empire wielded negligible military, political, or financial power and had no effective control over the scattered Western domains that could still be described as Roman.
  • In 476, after being refused lands in Italy, Orestes' Germanic mercenaries under the leadership of the chieftain Odoacer captured and executed Orestes and took Ravenna, the Western Roman capital at the time, deposing Western Emperor Romulus Augustus.
  • Charlotte Mary Yonge's 1880 artist rendition of Romulus Augustus resigning the crown to Odoacer.

• Early Roman Society

  • These designations were established at birth, with patricians tracing their ancestry back to the first Senate established under Romulus.