Alleged Dates
Plutarch says that Romulus was 53 ("in the fifty-fourth year of his age") at his death (Plutarch says that he vanished) in 717 BC. If true, then Romulus and Remus would have been born in the year 771 BC, and have begun the founding of Rome at the age of 18. Dionysius of Halicarnassus says, however, that Romulus was 55 when he died and that he reigned for a total of 37 years, agreeing as he notes with others before him that Romulus began his reign at 18.
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