# 103- The Silent Tomb?

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Podcast: [Autocrat- A Roman History Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/autocrat-a-roman-history-podcast-6816332)
Published: 2026-04-05T10:46:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/autocrat/episodes/103--The-Silent-Tomb-e3hf2rk
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Duration seconds: 778

## Resource

It's 5th July, 716 BCE. Campus Martius. One way or another, King Romulus of Rome disappears. But how? Did he become a god? Did the Senate do him in? Was there an uprising by the people? Let's pick our way through the different versions of events... Sources for this episode: Dio (1961), Dio's Roman History (Volume I). Translated by E. Cary. London and Cambridge, Massachusetts: William Heinemann Ltd. and Harvard University Press. Dionysus of Halicarnassus (1960), The Roman Antiquities of Dionysus of Halicarnassus. Translated by E. Cary. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press and William Heinemann Ltd. Livy (1971), The Early History of Rome. Translated by A. de Selincourt. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd. Ovid (1968), The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Translated by M. M. Innes. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd. Pliny's Natural History (TBA). Plutarch (1938), Plutarch's Lives (Volume I). London and New York: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. and E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. Sextus Aurelius Victor (TBA). Wiseman, T. P. (1983), The Wife and Children of Romulus. The Classical Quarterly 33(2): 445-452. Author unknown, NASA (date unknown), Solar eclipses of historical interest (online) (Accessed 27/10/2025). Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), List of solar eclipses in antiquities (online) (Accessed 27/10/2025).

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