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Myths featuring Ascanius (Iulus)

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1 myth currently featured for Ascanius (Iulus).

Aeneas’ Flight from the Burning City of Troy

🏛️ Greek MythologyTroy (Hisarlik), TurkeyAeneas • Anchises • Ascanius (Iulus)

After the Greeks infiltrate Troy using a giant wooden horse, the city is set ablaze and its people are slaughtered. Aeneas, a Trojan prince, is warned by the ghost of Hector to flee and preserve the future of his people. Carrying his elderly father on his back and leading his young son by the hand, Aeneas escapes the inferno, though he tragically loses his wife Creusa in the chaos, setting...