> Rome’s legendary founder, Romulus, was the son of a Vestal priestess—Rhea Silvia. I note that she was a vestal priestess, not a vestal Virgin. Though around

> Rome’s legendary founder, Romulus, was the son of a Vestal priestess—Rhea Silvia. I note that she was a vestal priestess, not a vestal Virgin. Though around that time such a thing was supposedly possible.