Plutarch's Lives

Antho

Family: Alba · Role: daughter of Amulius · First appears: Romulus

Life events

  • Ilia gave birth to twin boys, whom Amulius ordered abandoned despite Antho's intervention.(Romulus)
    • With: Ilia Amulius Romulus Remus
    • “This lady some call Ilia, others Rhea, and others Silvia; however, not long after, she was, contrary to the established laws of the Vestals, discovered to be with child, and should have suffered the most cruel punishment, had not Antho, the king's daughter, mediated with her father for her; nevertheless, she was confined, and debarred all company, that she might not be delivered without the king's knowledge. In time she brought forth two boys, of more than human size and beauty, whom Amulius, becoming yet more alarmed, commanded a servant to take and cast away;”

Romulus

  • parent: Amulius “had not Antho, the king's daughter, mediated with her father for her;”

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