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    kings of Alba Longa, or Alban kings (Latin: reges Albani), were a series of legendary kings of Latium, who ruled from the ancient city of Alba Longa....
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    Alba Longa (occasionally written Albalonga in Italian sources) was an ancient Latin city in Central Italy in the vicinity of Lake Albano in the Alban Hills...
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    Tiberinus Silvius (category Kings of Alba Longa)
    Capetus, the eighth king of Alba Longa. The Alban kings claimed descent from Aeneas, a Trojan prince who brought a remnant of the Trojan populace to Italy...
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    Silvius (mythology) (category Kings of Alba Longa)
    Postumus, was either the son of Aeneas and Lavinia or the son of Ascanius. He succeeded Ascanius as King of Alba Longa and reigned 1139–1110 BC. According...
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    Aventinus (said to have reigned 854-817 BC), one of the mythical kings of Alba Longa, who was buried on the Aventine Hill later named after him. He is...
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    Aeneas Silvius (category Kings of Alba Longa)
    kings of Alba Longa in Latium, and the Silvii regarded him as the founder of their house. Dionysius of Halicarnassus ascribes to him a reign of 31 years...
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    (said to have reigned 989-963 BC) was a descendant of Alba and the sixth king of Alba Longa. Geoffrey of Monmouth asserted in his Historia Regum Britanniae...
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  • Procas (category Kings of Alba Longa)
    reigned 817-794 BC) was one of the Latin kings of Alba Longa in the mythic tradition of the founding of Rome. He was the father of Amulius and Numitor and...
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    Capetus Silvius (category Kings of Alba Longa)
    Sĭluĭŭs) was a descendant of Aeneas and one of the legendary Latin kings of Alba Longa. He was the son of Capys, and the father of Tiberinus, after whom the...
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    Latinus (category Kings of Alba Longa)
    Ascanius, the son of Aeneas, later founded Alba Longa and was the first in a long series of kings leading to Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome. The English...
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  • Latin kings, Latin Kings, or The Latin Kings may refer to: Kings of Alba Longa, a series of legendary kings of Alba Longa, an ancient city in Latium,...
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    Romulus Silvius (category Kings of Alba Longa)
    reigned 873-854 BC) was a descendant of Aeneas and a king of Alba Longa. Alba Longa was a city near the site of Rome, founded later by Romulus, his...
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    Amulius (category Kings of Alba Longa)
    [aˈmuːliʊs]) was king of Alba Longa who ordered the death of his infant, twin grandnephews Romulus, the eventual founder and king of Rome, and Remus. He...
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    descendant of Aeneas and King of Alba Longa, the capital of Latium, southeast of Rome. He was listed as king of Alba Longa in the time of Augustus. Some[who...
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    Ascanius (category Kings of Alba Longa)
    Ἀσκάνιος) was a legendary king of Alba Longa (1176-1138 BC) and is the son of the Trojan hero Aeneas and Creusa, daughter of Priam. He is a character in...
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    Mettius Fufetius (category People from Alba Longa)
    BC) was a dictator of Alba Longa, an ancient town in central Italy near Rome. He was appointed to his position after the death of Alban king Gaius Cluilius...
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    Numitor (category Kings of Alba Longa)
    [ˈnʊmɪtɔr]) of Alba Longa was the maternal grandfather of Rome's founder and first king, Romulus, and his twin brother Remus. He was the son of Procas, descendant...
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  • also the name of one of the legendary kings of Alba Longa, Agrippa Silvius, whose descendants came to Rome following the destruction of that city during...
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    Latinus Silvius (category Kings of Alba Longa)
    descendant of Aeneas and fourth in the list of mythical kings of Alba Longa (according to Livy). Titus Livius credits him with founding a majority of the settlements...
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    Alba Silvius (said to have reigned 1028–989 BC) was in Roman mythology the fifth king of Alba Longa. He was the son of Latinus Silvius and the father of...
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  • Gaius Cluilius (category Kings of Alba Longa)
    the king of Alba Longa during the reign of the Roman king Tullus Hostilius in the mid seventh century BC. Alba Longa was an ancient city of Latium in...
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    Tullus Hostilius (category Kings of Rome)
    be the father of Ancus Marcius, Tullus's successor. The principal feature of Tullus' reign was the defeat of Alba Longa. After Alba Longa was beaten (by...
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    Libertas and is associated with the overthrow of the Tarquin kings. She was worshiped by the Junii, the family of Marcus Junius Brutus. In 238 BC, before the...
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    Latial culture (category Archaeological cultures of Europe)
    period of the kings of Alba Longa and the foundation of the Roman Kingdom. Latial culture is identified by their hut-shaped burial urns. Urns of the Proto-Villanovan...
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  • Capys (category Kings of Alba Longa)
    king of Dardania. Capys, the Trojan who warned not to bring the Trojan horse into the city. Capys, mythological king of Alba Longa and descendant of Aeneas...
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    personification of sleep. His Greek counterpart is Hypnos. Somnus resided in the underworld. According to Virgil, Somnus was the brother of Death (Mors)...
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    public duties. Festus claimed the mulleus was originally used by the kings of Alba Longa before being adopted by the patricians. Cassius Dio states that the...
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    of the Christian era. The myth of a Trojan founding with Greek influence was reconciled through an elaborate genealogy (the Latin kings of Alba Longa)...
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    Aeneas (category Children of Aphrodite)
    Golden Bough Latin kings of Alba Longa "His name will be Aineias [Aeneas], since it was an unspeakable [ainos] akhos that took hold of me – grief that I...
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    particularly true of those gods belonging to the archaic religion of the Romans dating back to the era of kings, the so-called "religion of Numa", which was...
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