Transcript Founding Myths

Founding Myths
The national epic
of Rome, the
Aeneid of Vergil,
tells the story of
how the Trojan
Prince Aeneas
came to Italy.
The Aeneid was written under
the first emperor of Rome,
Augustus.
Who claimed
ancestry through
Julius Caesar
from the Trojan
hero and his
mother Venus.
According to the Aeneid, the
survivors from the fallen city of
Troy banded together under
Aeneas, underwent a series of
adventures around the
Mediterranean sea, and eventually
reached the Italian coast.
The young son of Aeneas,
Ascanius, also known as
Iulus, went on to found Alba
Longa and the lines of Alban
kings who filled the
chronological gap between the
Trojan saga and the founding
th
of Rome in 8 century B.C.