Location and Legend: Alba Longa was a region in the area of ancient Italy known as Latium. Although we don't know exactly where it was, since it was destroyed early in Roman history, it was traditionally founded at the foot of the Alban mountain about 12 miles southeast of Rome.
A doublet legendary tradition, found in Livy, makes King Latinus' daughter, Lavinia, the mother of Aeneas's son Ascanius. The more familiar tradition credits Ascanius as the son of Aeneas' first wife, Creusa. Creusa disappeared during the escape of the Trojan band led by Prince Aeneas, from the enflamed city of Troy -- the story told in Vergil's Aeneid. (We know she died because her ghost makes an appearance.) Harmonizing the two accounts some ancient thinkers say there were two sons of Aneas with the same
According to legend, Ancient Rome was founded by the two brothers, and demi-gods, Romulus and Remus, on 21 April 753. The legend claims that, in an argument over who would rule thecity (or, in another version, where the city would be located) Romulus killed Remus and named the city after himself. This story of the founding of Rome is the best known but it is not the only one. Other legends claim the city was named after a woman,Roma, who traveled with Aeneas and the other survivors fromTroy after that city fell. Upon landing on the banks of the Tiber River, Roma and the other women objected when the men wanted to move on. She lead the women in the burning of the Trojan ships and so effectively stranded the Trojan survivors at the site which would eventually become Rome. Aeneas of Troy is featured in this legend and also, famously, in Virgil's Aeneid, as a founder of Rome and the ancestor of Romulus and Remus, thus linking Rome with the grandeur and might which was once Troy.
According to legend, Ancient Rome was founded by the two brothers, and demi-gods, Romulus and Remus, on 21 April 753. The legend claims that, in an argument over who would rule thecity (or, in another version, where the city would be located) Romulus killed Remus and named the city after himself. This story of the founding of Rome is the best known but it is not the only one. Other legends claim the city was named after a woman,Roma, who traveled with Aeneas and the other survivors fromTroy after that city fell. Upon landing on the banks of the Tiber River, Roma and the other women objected when the men wanted to move on. She lead the women in the burning of the Trojan ships and so effectively stranded the Trojan survivors at the site which would eventually become Rome. Aeneas of Troy is featured in this legend and also, famously, in Virgil's Aeneid, as a founder of Rome and the ancestor of Romulus and Remus, thus linking Rome with the grandeur and might which was once Troy.
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