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Rome is on an incredibly good spot for a settlement, and has probably been occupied constantly ever since there have been people in the area. It was almost certainly not "founded" by anyone. This is your brain on Great Man ideology.
Very few cities have an explicit founder unless they're relatively modern. The vast majority of settlements throughout human history just built up in good locations on their own. You're completely right, the conservative/liberal mind seems to be incapable of comprehending groups of people doing something on their own. They have to have a brilliant leader who told them to build a city.
Iirc, we even have evidence of wars fought between the inhabitants of the different hills of rome, implying that it is such a good place for a settlement that multiple groups settled there before growing too large to be supported by the resources available on their hill alone.