In the proposed work, the author for the first time in the chronological narrative includes biblical legends along with historical and literary sources. According to the author, "religion is the heart of culture," and therefore the history of Christianity cannot be excluded from the general history of antiquity. The author not only attracts carefully researched sources and numerous hypotheses about the emergence of Rome, but also tries to understand "what the Romans themselves knew and thought about their past, what they said about it, how they evaluated it and how they understood it." It is from this angle that F.F. Zelinsky uses the works of famous historians - Libya. Tacita, Suetonia. Plutarch.