Editing Rhea Silvia (section)

== Modern literature ==
* In [[David Drake]]'s science fiction story "To Bring the Light", the [[time travel]]ling protagonist meets a completely human Rhea Silvia, a sympathetic peasant living in a small shepherd community on [[Palatine Hill]] in what would become the city of Rome.<ref>{{cite book |year=2011 |type=collection |title=[[Lest Darkness Fall and Related Stories]] |chapter=To Bring the Light |author-link=David Drake |first=David |last=Drake}}</ref>
* In [[Rick Riordan]]'s novel ''[[The Mark of Athena]]'', Annabeth Chase meets Rhea Silvia and the god of the river Tiber in the forms of Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck's characters from the movie ''[[Roman Holiday]]''.<ref name="Riordan2012">{{cite book|author=Rick Riordan|title=The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus, Book Three)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gHoLiOEdoLoC&pg=PT398|date=2 October 2012|publisher=Disney Book Group|isbn=978-1-4231-5516-4|page=398}}</ref>
* Rhea Silvia is the central character in [[Debra Macleod|Debra May Macleod]]'s historical fiction novel ''Rhea Silvia'' (2022).<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Macleod |first1=Debra May |url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09XSPY66D?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_0&storeType=ebooks |title=Rhea Silvia: Book One in The First Vestals of Rome Trilogy |last2=Macleod |first2=Scott |date=2022-04-11 |publisher=Debra May Macleod |language=English}}</ref>