Hersilia. In Roman mythology, Hersilia was a figure in the foundation myth of Rome.
She is credited with ending the war between Rome and the Sabines. In some accounts she is the wife of Romulus, the founder and first King of Rome in Rome's founding myths.
She is described as such in both Livy and Plutarch; but in Dionysius, Macrobius, and another tradition recorded by Plutarch, she was instead the wife of Hostus Hostilius, a Roman champion at the time of Romulus. This would make her the grandmother of Tullus Hostilius, the third king of Rome.
Livy tells this tale in his work Ab urbe condita: While the Romans were thus occupied in the City, the army of the Antemnates seized the opportunity afforded by their absence, and made an inroad upon their territory; but so swiftly was the Roman levy led against them that they, too, were taken off their guard while scattered about in the fields. They were therefore routed at the first charge and shout, and their town was taken.
As Romulus was exulting in his double victory, his wife Hersilia, beset with entreaties by the captive women, begged him to forgive their parents and receive them into the state; which would, in that case, gain in strength by harmony. He readily granted her request. Just like her husband, she was deified after her death as Hora, as recounted in Ovid's Metamorphoses: His queen, Hersilia, wept continually, regarding him as lost
She is credited with ending the war between Rome and the Sabines. In some accounts she is the wife of Romulus, the founder and first King of Rome in Rome's founding myths.
She is described as such in both Livy and Plutarch; but in Dionysius, Macrobius, and another tradition recorded by Plutarch, she was instead the wife of Hostus Hostilius, a Roman champion at the time of Romulus. This would make her the grandmother of Tullus Hostilius, the third king of Rome.
Livy tells this tale in his work Ab urbe condita: While the Romans were thus occupied in the City, the army of the Antemnates seized the opportunity afforded by their absence, and made an inroad upon their territory; but so swiftly was the Roman levy led against them that they, too, were taken off their guard while scattered about in the fields. They were therefore routed at the first charge and shout, and their town was taken.
As Romulus was exulting in his double victory, his wife Hersilia, beset with entreaties by the captive women, begged him to forgive their parents and receive them into the state; which would, in that case, gain in strength by harmony. He readily granted her request. Just like her husband, she was deified after her death as Hora, as recounted in Ovid's Metamorphoses: His queen, Hersilia, wept continually, regarding him as lost
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