The story of Romulus and Remus is the story of man himself. Romulus is the spiritual element within himself, the one who gives a law and marks a limit. Remo, on the contrary, represents the animal part of man, his passions, instincts, fears, desires, feelings, the incapability of disciplining himself.

Romulus punishes Remo with death after he crosses the limit, his rebellion is the root of the inferior biological man. Romulus being hierarchically superior is legitimized to act, create Rome, to establish the Empire.

It is necessary to re-establish Rome in our hearts! And to do this we must draw a furrow and kill the Remo that is within us, the individualistic and selfish element that prevents us from being free and truly Roman. Only in this way, in the daily struggle of the Self and the ego, with the killing of the egocentric, arbitrary and subjective part, beyond time and space, do we find Rome in our existence.

— Mario Polia, Dici “Roma”, dici “Tradizione”