Romulus and Remus had an unusual childhood because a
A) They were thrown in the river Tiber in a basked when they were babies by a servant of Amulius their great-uncle to save them. Amulius wanted to kill them because he had deposed their grandfather who had been the king of the Latin city of Alba Longa. He did not want them to grow into rivals.
B) The river deity Tiberinus made the basket catch the roots of a fig tree in a swamp by the Palatine Hill.
B) They were found in a cave of the Palatine Hill (the Lupercalia) by a she-wolf (Lupa) and were suckled by her and fed by a woodpecker (Picus)
C) They were raised by a shepherd and his wife (Faustulus and Acca Larentia). They grew up as shepherds and were quite wild.
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