Aeneas was the son of the goddess Aphrodite (Venus) and Anchises which made him a demigod (part god and part human). He Aeneas is known as the defender of the city of Troy which was destroyed by the Greeks during the Trojan War. After the war
Aeneas led his father, his son Ascanius, and those who survived the war to what is now
Italy. Dreams and omens told Aeneas that he was to build ships and set sail as he would become the founder of a great kingdom. Along his journey Aeneas landed in Sicily where he left some of his crew members in order for them to build a new colony. Aeneas would then travel to Latium which was located in central Italy. Aeneas became engaged with
Lavinia who was the daughter of the king of the Latins and founded the city of
Lavinium. Aeneas son Ascanius became the ruler of Lavinium after the death of Aeneas who as a ruler founded a second city called Alba Longa.

Facts About Aeneas 1: Homer’s Iliad
The name Aeneas was included in Homer’s Iliad. He is one of the important mythological creatures in Greece. You can also see his character in Roman mythology where he was called as the first true hero of Rome.
Facts about Aeneas 2: Hymn to Aphrodite
Hymn to Aphrodite is one of the important Homeric Hymns. When you read it, you can find out the birth story of Aeneas. Aphrodite was fascinated by Anchises. The prince was very amazed with the beautiful appearance of Aphrodite. She told him that she was a
Phrygian princess.
Facts About Aeneas 3: The Birth Of Aeneas
Aphrodite reveled her true identify as a goddess after she made love with Anchises. She told him that she would give birth a son named Aeneas. The young baby of Aeneas was taken by his mother to the nymphs of Mount Ida.

Facts about Aeneas 4: saved from the death
Even though in the Iliad Aeneas was not called as the main character, you can see that he was very important. The gods saved him two from the death.
Facts About Aeneas 5: Who Is Aeneas?
Aeneas was the third cousin of the son of Trojan King Priam. In the Trojan Kingdom, he led the Trojans’ Dardanian allies. When Aeneas was in a battlefield, his mother always helped him. You have to know that Apollo liked him a lot.
Facts about Aeneas 6: helped by the gods
Aeneas was saved from the death by his mother Aphrodite and Apollo. During the combat of Diomedes of Argos, he was nearly killed. But Apollo and Aphrodite saved him and helped him at Pergamos.
Facts About Aeneas 7: Poseidon
Aeneas was saved by Poseidon when he was in the arm of Achilles. There is no need to wonder that Aeneas could become the king of Trojan.
Facts about Aeneas 8: Aeneads
Aeneads was a group of people led by Aeneas. This man was very lucky since he was one of the few Trojans. He was not enslaved or killed by Troy. The group and Aeneas went to
Italy and he became progenitors of Romans.
Facts About Aeneas 9: The Members Of Aenead Group
The members of the Aeneads included his father Anchises, the helmsman Palinurus, his son Ascanius, his friends Achates trumpeter Misenus, and many more.
Facts about Aeneas 10: the statues
When Aeneas travelled to Italy, he brought the statues of Lares and Penates to Italy.
Both were the household gods of troy
.

Romulus and Remus are the mythological twin brothers who founded the city of
Rome. Here is their story.
Twins are Born
Romulus and Remus were twin boys born to a princess named Rhea Silvia. Their father was the fierce Roman god of war, Mars. The king where the boys lived was scared that someday Romulus and Remus would overthrow him and take his throne.
So he had the boys left in a basket on the Tiber River. He figured they would soon die.
Raised by a Wolf
The boys were found by a she-wolf. The wolf cared for them and protected them from other wild animals. A friendly woodpecker helped to find them food. Eventually some shepherds happened across the twins. One shepherd took the boys home and raised them as his own children.

The boys are found by a shepherd
Growing Up
As the boys grew older they became natural leaders. One day Remus was captured and taken to the king. He discovered his true identity. Romulus gathered some shepherds to rescue his brother. They ended up killing the king. When the city learned who the boys were, they offered to crown them as joint kings. They could be rulers of their homeland.
However, they turned down the crowns because they wanted to found their own city.
The twins left and set out to find the perfect spot for their city.
Founding a New City
The twins eventually came to the place where Rome is located today. They both liked the general area, but each wanted to place the city on a different hill. Romulus wanted the city to be on top of Palatine Hill while Remus preferred Aventine Hill. They agreed to wait for a sign from the gods, called an augury, to determine which hill to use. Remus saw the sign of six vultures first, but Romulus saw twelve. Each claimed to have won.
Remus is Killed
Romulus went ahead and started building a wall around Palantine Hill. However,
Remus was jealous and began to make fun of Romulus' wall. At one point Remus jumped over the wall to show how easy it was to cross. Romulus became angry and killed Remus.
Rome is Founded
With Remus dead, Romulus continued to work on his city. He officially founded the city on April 21, 753 BC, making himself king, and naming it Rome after himself. From there he began to organize the city. He divided his army into legions of 3,300 men. He called his 100 most noble men the Patricians and the elders of Rome the Senate. The city grew

and prospered. For over 1,000 years Rome would be one of the most powerful cities in the world.
Interesting Facts about Romulus and Remus
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The boys were descendents of the Trojan prince and great warrior Aeneas made famous from Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid.
In another version of the story the father of the boys is the hero Hercules.
Over time, the city of Rome expanded to cover the seven surrounding hills of
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Aventine Hill, Caelian Hill, Capitoline Hill, Esquiline Hill, Palatine Hill, Quirinal
Hill, and Viminal Hill.
Romulus died when he mysteriously disappeared in a whirlwind.
 The poet Ovid once wrote that Romulus was turned into a god named Quirinus and went to live on Mount Olympus with his father Mars.

Cincinnatus was working in a small farm when he was asked to be the dictator or
Rome when the Roman army was at war with the Aequi (ancient people of Italy who had a long hostility towards Rome). The legends say that Cincinnatus defeated the enemy in a single day. After his victory Cincinnatus gave up the reins of power and returned to work in his small farm. Cincinnatus is remembered as selfless and devoted to the republic.

Cesar was a Roman general, conqueror, and dictator. He is best known for causing the biggest change in the history of Rome. Cesar was born from the original aristocracy of Rome whose families were declining. By the time Cesar was born it did not mean much to be of patrician blood descendent. Cesar nevertheless found a way to get involved in a political career and his career in the military helped him become popular in the eyes of the Roman citizens. After conquering Gaul he turned his army towards Rome in early 46 B.C.E where he would name himself dictator. Cesar would rule as a dictator for the rest of his life instead of the constitutional six months. He would then centralize the military and all political functions. Cesar would also take away the property of conservative Roman citizens and give it away to veteran military men.
Cesar is also known for ordering the large-scale construction of buildings such as the

coliseum which brought job opportunities to poor urban areas. Another thing Cesar did was to offer citizenships to people in the imperial provinces. It is because of the social reforms and his politics that Cesar was killed by a group of elite classes who consider him to be a tyrant and who wanted to restore Rome as a republic.

The Roman Empire was one of the greatest and most influential civilizations in world history. Rome grew to rule much of Europe, Western Asia, and Northern Africa.
Here is a timeline of some of the major events in the history of Ancient Rome.
753 BC - The city of Rome is founded. Legend has it that the twin sons of Mars, the god of war, named Romulus and Remus founded the city. Romulus killed Remus and became ruler of Rome and named the city after himself. Rome was ruled by kings for the next 240 years.
509 BC - Rome becomes a republic. The last king is overthrown and Rome is now ruled by elected officials called senators. There is a constitution with laws and a complex republican government.
218 BC - Hannibal invades Italy. Hannibal leads the Carthage army in his famous crossing of the Alps to attack Rome. This is part of the Second Punic war.
73 BC - Spartacus the gladiator leads the slaves in an uprising.
45 BC - Julius Caesar becomes the first dictator of Rome. Caesar makes his famous
Crossing of the Rubicon and defeats Pompey in a civil war to become the supreme ruler of Rome. This signals the end of the Roman Republic.
44 BC - Julius Caesar is assassinated on the Ides of March by Marcus Brutus. They hope to bring back the republic, but civil war breaks out.
27 BC - The Roman Empire begins as Caesar Augustus becomes the first Roman
Emperor.
64 AD - Much of Rome burns. Legend has it that Emperor Nero watched the city burn while playing a lyre.
80 AD - The Colosseum is built. One of the great examples of Roman engineering is finished. It can seat 50,000 spectators.

121 AD - The Hadrian Wall is built. To keep out the barbarians a long wall is built across northern England.
306 AD - Constantine becomes Emperor. Constantine would convert to Christianity and Rome would become a Christian empire. Prior to this Rome persecuted the
Christians.
380 AD - Theodosius I declares Christianity to be the sole religion of the Roman
Empire.
395 AD - Rome splits into two empires.
410 AD - The Visigoths sack Rome. This is the first time in 800 years that the city of
Rome has fallen to an enemy.
476 AD - The end of the Western Roman Empire and the fall of Ancient Rome. The last
Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus is defeated by the German Goth Odoacer. This signals the start of the Dark Ages in Europe.
1453 AD - The Byzantine Empire comes to an end as it falls to the Ottoman Empire.