Ascanius
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Ascanius was a legendary king of Alba Longa and the son of the Trojan hero Aeneas and of Creusa, daughter of Priam. He is a significant figure in Roman mythology because of his family connections: as
The boy Ascanius weeps and Venus hovers nearby as the physician Iapyx treats the wound of Aeneas (wall painting from Pompeii, 1st century AD).
Aeneas carrying Anchises, with his wife leading the way and Ascanius between them (red-figure amphora from a Greek workshop in Etruria, ca. 470 BC)
Ascanius shooting Sylvia's stag, in the 5th-century Roman Vergil manuscript
Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia (1682), Claude Lorrain's last painting
Creusa (wife of Aeneas)
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In Greek and Roman mythology, Creusa was the wife of Aeneas, legendary hero and founder of Alba Longa, and the mother of Ascanius. According to Apollodorus, she was the daughter of Priam, the last kin
Ascanius
…Ancient Greek: Ἀσκάνιος) was a legendary king of Alba Longa (traditional reign: 1176 BC to 1138 BC) and the son of the Trojan hero Aeneas and of Creusa, daughter of Priam. He is a significant figure in Roman mythology because of his family connections: as the son of the Roman ancestor-figure Aeneas…
Creusa with her husband Aeneas who is carrying his father Anchises, black-figure pottery in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States.
Aeneas encounters the shade of Creusa, illustration by Bartolomeo Pinelli