Alba Longa
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Alba Longa was an ancient Latin city in Central Italy in the vicinity of Lake Albano in the Alban Hills. The ancient Romans believed it to be the founder and head of the Latin League, before it was de
Castel Gandolfo on a long, sunlit ridge overlooking Lake Albano, the most likely site of ancient Alba Longa
In the temple of Vesta, painting by Constantin Hölscher, 1902
AR serrate denarius of C. Sulpicius C. f. Galba
Julia gens
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The gens Julia was one of the most prominent patrician families of ancient Rome. From the early decades of the Republic, members of this gens served in the highest offices of the Roman state, beginnin
Alba Longa
…dynasty of Alba Longa, which in Virgil's Aeneid had been the bloodline of Aeneas, a son of Venus. According to Livy, Roman patrician families such as the Julii, Servilii, Quinctii, Geganii, Curiatii and Cloelii originated in Alba Longa. Livy said of Alba Longa that it was founded by Ascanius to relieve crowding…
Bust of Caesar, 44–30 BC, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museums
Denarius issued under Augustus from the mint at Lugdunum (Lyon, France), showing Gaius and Lucius Caesar standing facing on the reverse (circa 2 BC – AD 14)
Aeneas, legendary ancestor of the Julii, with the god of the Tiber
Trajan's Bridge at Alcántara, built by C. Julius Lacer