Romulus and Remus - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• Romolo e Remo: a 1961 film starring Steve Reeves and Gordon Scott as the two brothers.
• The Rape of the Sabine Women: a 1962 film starring Wolf Ruvinskis as Romulus.
• In the Star Trek universe, Romulus and Remus are neighbouring planets with Remus being tidally locked to the star. Romulus is the capital of the Romulan Star Empire, which is loosely based on the Roman Empire.
• Remus Lupin, a werewolf in the Harry Potter series, a Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts in Harry's 3rd Year, and a member of the Order of the Phoenix, is named after one of the brothers (in addition, his last name is based on the Latin word for "wolf"). As a nod to the myth, during the forbidden radio broadcast Potterwatch, he codenames himself "Romulus".
• Metal Band Ex Deo's hit single Romulus featured on their album. The band is recognized as an Epic Metal band with lyrics about Ancient Rome and mythology.
• Romolo is the mascot of Football club AS Roma, he is a grey wolf, clearly named after Romulus.
• Romulus and Remus are the names of the two protagonists in Undead Knights. Romulus is portrayed as a demonic knight and his brother is portrayed as a wisecracking, foul mouthed swordsman. Both brothers are shown to have died during a slaughter ordered by King Gradis and return as a demonic necromancers.
• Romulus and Remus are the names of the main characters of the 1989 film, Brotherhood of the Rose.
• The novel Founding Fathers by Alfred Duggan describes the founding and first decades of Rome from the points of view of one of Romulus's Latin followers, a Sabine who settles in Rome as part of the peace agreement with Tatius, an Etruscan fugitive who is accepted into the tribe of Luceres after his own city is destroyed, and a Greek seeking purification from blood-guilt who comes to the city in the last years of Romulus' reign. The first three of these become senators. Romulus is portrayed as a gifted leader though a remarkably unpleasant person, chiefly distinguished by his luck; the story of his surreptitious murder by the senators is adopted, but although the story of his deification is fabricated, his murderers themselves think he may indeed have become a god. The novel begins with the founding of the city and the killing of Remus, and ends with the accession of Numa Pompilius.
• In the 2010 Game Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, a group described by Niccolo Machiavelli as a band of false pagans are the Followers of Romulus or Secta Luporium (Sect of wolves). They have an alliance with the The Borgia and drive people into the arms of the Church by terrifying the citizens of Rome.
• Sufjan Stevens' third studio album Michigan includes a song called "Romulus".