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- # Name: Iulus Ascanius King of Alba Longa
# Sex: M
# Birth: in 1190 BC
# Death: in 1137 BC
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Ascanius
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In Greek and Roman mythology, Ascanius was a son of Aeneas and Creusa. After the Trojan War, Ascanius escaped to Latium in Italy with his father and fought in the Italian Wars. Virgil's Aeneid says he had a role in the founding of Rome as the first king of Alba Longa.
He was also called Iulus or Julus. From this name comes the Gens Julia, the Julian family to which Julius Caesar belonged.
The name Iulus was popularised by Virgil in his work the Aeneid, replacing the Greek name Ascanius with Iulus to link the Julian family of Rome to earlier mythology. The emperor Augustus, who commissioned the work, was a great patron of the arts. As a member of the Julian family, he could claim to have three major Olympian gods in his family tree, so he encouraged his many poets to present material on his direct descent from Aeneas.
Ascanius is also a lake in the region Ascania in Anatolia. It's name is derived from Ashkuza, the Assyrian word for Scythians. See Ashkenazi.
Father: Aeneas (The Dardanian) King of Latium b: in 1220 BC
Mother: Creusa of Troy
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