the bronze Capitoline She-wolf. According to lore, the wolf nursed the half-wolf, half-god founders of the city, twins Romulus and Remus. Its namesake museum contains busts of Roman emperors ...

It was a she-wolf who found the babies and suckled them as if they were her own offspring, which is why Rome keeps the Capitoline she-wolf as its emblem. Later, a shepherd rescued them and raised ...