Lusus Troiae
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The Lusus Troiae, also as Ludus Troiae and ludicrum Troiae was an equestrian event held in ancient Rome. It was among the ludi, celebrated at imperial funerals, temple foundings, or in honor of a mili
Panel from the Gundestrup Cauldron sometimes interpreted as depicting an equestrian ritual of initiation
Drawing of an Etruscan oinochoë with a legend reading Truia, sometimes thought to depict the Troy Game
Detail of foot soldiers from the opposite side of the Truia wine-server
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