Romulus

Romulus is attested in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as the legendary founder of Rome. The poem records that "Romulus built Rome and gave to the city his own name, which it bears even to this day" (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part I, Of the making of Britain). This brief attestation places Romulus within the poem's opening genealogy of city-founders descending from Troy, establishing the classical Mediterranean backdrop against which Britain's own founding legends unfold.