Amulius usurped Alba Longa's throne from his brother Numitor, killing Numitor's sons and forcing Rhea Silvia into the Vestals. His tyranny over Alba Longa set in motion the events that led to Rome's founding.
Ascanius ruled Alba Longa as its first king after founding the city in the Alban Hills, beginning the dynasty of Silvian kings that would endure for four centuries until the birth of Romulus and Remus.
Numitor was the rightful king of Alba Longa, deposed by his brother Amulius. After Romulus and Remus killed the usurper, Numitor was restored to Alba Longa's throne while the twins departed to found Rome.
Ascanius founded Alba Longa in the Alban Hills thirty years after the Trojans' arrival in Italy, fulfilling the prophecy of the white sow with thirty piglets. Alba Longa became the mother city of Rome.
The Alban king Aventinus was buried on the hill that would later become one of Rome's seven. The Aventine Hill thus bore the name of an Alba Longa king, binding Roman geography to the city's ancestral heritage.
Lavinia bore Aeneas's posthumous son Silvius in the woods near Alba Longa, fearing her stepson Ascanius might harm the child. The Silvian dynasty that Silvius founded ruled Alba Longa for generations until Romulus's birth.
Lavinium was the predecessor city to Alba Longa, founded by Aeneas himself. Ascanius ruled Lavinium for thirty years before departing to found Alba Longa, which inherited Lavinium's Trojan heritage and sacred rites.
Remus and his twin Romulus were born in Alba Longa to the Vestal Virgin Rhea Silvia, descendants of the city's royal line founded by Aeneas's son Silvius.
Rhea Silvia was a princess of Alba Longa's royal house, forced by the usurper Amulius to become a Vestal Virgin. Her union with Mars produced Romulus and Remus, through whom Alba Longa's bloodline founded Rome.
Romulus was born in Alba Longa as the son of Mars and Rhea Silvia, a princess of the ancient Latin city. After overthrowing the usurper Amulius, Romulus left Alba Longa to found Rome.
The Alban king Tiberinus drowned in the river that thereafter bore his name, the Tiber River. The twins Romulus and Remus, born in Alba Longa, were later cast into the Tiber by Amulius's servants.
Tullus Hostilius razed Alba Longa to the ground after its dictator Mettius Fufetius betrayed Rome in battle, transplanting the Alban people to the Caelian Hill and absorbing the mother city's population, rites, and noble families into Rome.
The sacred fire of Vesta burned in Alba Longa, carried there from Troy through Lavinium. This eternal flame represented divine continuity from Troy to Rome, maintained by Vestal Virgins including the princess Rhea Silvia.
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