Ascanius

Quartigod son of Aeneas by Creusa daughter of Priam. The canonical foundation-figure of the Roman gens Iulia's ancestral claim to Trojan-Aphrodisian descent — the genealogy through which Julius Caesar and Augustus claimed Venus-divine ancestry. Founder of Alba Longa per Livy and Dionysius. The Iulian-Silvian succession-schism (Iulus vs Silvius) at his death is the foundation-narrative of the Alban king-list dynastic structure that terminates in Romulus.

Parentage

• Aeneas
• Creusa

Powers

• Founded the city of Alba Longa
• Slew Numanus Remulus with his first arrow-shot

Relations

• father: Aeneas
• half sibling: Silvius
• half sibling: Etias

Sources

• Vergil, Aeneid passim (the central ancestor-figure of the Roman foundation-myth); Livy, Ab Urbe Condita 1.1-3; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 1.65-72; Apollodorus, Epitome 5.21; Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 13.300-353; Cato, Origines (fragments)
• Vergil, Aen. 2.666-678; Livy 1.3.1