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  • “We call Ascanius by the name Iulus,” said Caesar.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • I have some doubts (for who can state as certain a matter of such antiquity) whether this was the Ascanius, or one older than he, born of Creusa before the fall of Troy, and the companion of his father in his flight from thence, the same whom, being called Iulus, the Julian family call the author of their name.

    The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

  • Ascanius, who was also called Iulus, removed from Lavinium thirty years after its foundation, and built Alba Longa, or the "Long White City," on

    A Smaller History of Rome William Smith 1853

  • Glaukôpidos: An Anachronism in Modernity: Tiny Iulus with his head all aglow...

    Tiny Iulus with his head all aglow... 2005

  • 'O Phrygian house gods of Iulus, clan and mysteries of Quirinus who was carried off to heaven --

    Colonel Joshua Chamberlain Recalls Ceasar's Civil War 2003

  • Patricians of the tribe Fabia, once the Kings of Alba Longa, and descended from Iulus, who was the son of Aeneas, who was the son of the goddess Venus.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • Iulus died there, and left his family behind to continue to rule-the Julii.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • It is more romantic to believe that Iulus was the son of Creusa, but more likely, I think, that he was the son of Lavinia.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • After Aeneas died and Iulus grew up, he founded the city of Alba Longa on the Alban Mount-uphill from Bovillae, you might say.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • Actors were hired, chariots for them to ride in: the ancestors would include King Ancus Marcius, Quintus Marcius Rex, Iulus, that early Julian consul, Sextus Caesar and Lucius Caesar, and Gaius Marius and his son.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

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