Endless Joy ROMULUS & REMUS VISCOSE SHORTS BLACK

New. Unworn. No tags Size Medium. Fits 32-34 inch waist The legend of Romulus and Remus is truly the stuff of legends: twin children demigods, raised by wolves, grow up to become the founders of the city of Rome. Painted in an expressive cubist style and based on an ancient Roman mosaic and the Capitoline Wolf. This artwork depicts Romulus and Remus as demonic looking infants who grow fat from the milk they suck from the stylised teats of a grinning she-wolf. The prominence of Romulus and Remus in the Roman creation myth likely owes to the Romans’ own cultural identity as strong, fierce, and conniving survivors. As a culture, perhaps they believed themselves to be wolf-like. Embraced by the ancient Romans as a proud part of their founding history, the tale reflects the Roman view of their empire as destined by the gods. It is also a savage tale of murder, kidnapping, and war... an unstable myth perhaps for any civilisation to be built upon. The universal theme of twin-male heroes is documented in the mythologies of nearly every culture: African, Mayan, Roman, Greek and Eastern Indian mythologies. We are most familiar with the vying male twins like Romulus and Remus but many other examples of twin boys, amicable as well as rivalrous, abound. Each twin constitutes only half an individual psychically. It is because the two are only complementary halves, that they have always to be forced into action.