# Romulus — Discourses on Livy character guide

> Romulus in Discourses on Livy by Niccolò Machiavelli.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0004-i

## Who they are

Founder and first king of Rome, exemplar of necessary violence in state-building.

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