In Greek and Roman mythology, Ascanius was the son of the Trojan prince Aeneas and Creusa, daughter of Priam. After the Trojan War, as the city burned, Aeneas escaped to Latium in Italy, …

Ascanius, in Roman legend, son of the hero Aeneas and the traditional founder of Alba Longa, probably the site of the modern Castel Gandolfo, near Rome. In different versions, Ascanius is …

Ascanius in the Aeneid was the son of the epic hero Aeneas and his wife Creusa, the daughter of King Priam. He fled with his father from Troy as the Greeks besieged the once illustrious city …

Aeneas’s son Ascanius represents Aeneas’s future and the destined founding of Rome. Over the course of the epic, Ascanius grows from a boy who follows his father out of Troy with “unequal …

After the fall of Troy, Ascanius and some Phrygian allies of the Trojans were sent by Aeneas to the country of Dascylitis, whose inhabitants made Ascanius their king; but he soon returned to …

Ascanius is a significant character in Roman mythology and literature, known as the son of Aeneas and Creusa. He represents the hope for the future of the Trojans and is often seen as …

Ascanius, also called Iulus, was in Roman legend the son of the Trojan hero Aeneas and the founder of Alba Longa, an ancient Latin city regarded as the mother-city of Rome.

Ascanius, character in literature and mythology, son of *Aeneas. Not mentioned in Homer, he appears in the Aeneas-legend by the 5th cent. bce, at first as one of several sons of Aeneas …

Ascanius (/əˈskeɪniəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἀσκάνιος) was a legendary king of Alba Longa (1176-1138 BC) and the son of the Trojan hero Aeneas and Creusa, daughter of Priam.

In Greek and Roman mythology, Ascanius was the son of the Trojan prince Aeneas and Creusa, daughter of Priam. After the Trojan War, as the city burned, Aeneas escaped to Latium in Italy, …