Tiberinus, the drowned Alban king deified as the river's guardian spirit, rules over the Tiber as its god. He appeared to Aeneas in a dream, calming the river's currents to grant the Trojans safe passage upstream to Pallanteum.
The infant Remus and his twin Romulus were cast into the flooding Tiber River on Amulius's orders but survived when their basket came to rest at the foot of the Palatine Hill.
Aeneas sailed up the Tiber to reach Evander's settlement on the Palatine after the river god Tiberinus calmed the waters in a dream, granting the Trojans safe passage to the future site of Rome.
The sacred serpent of Aesculapius swam from the ship to Tiber Island after entering the Tiber River, choosing the island as the god's Roman home. The temple built there became Rome's principal healing sanctuary.
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.
The swollen Tiber carried the basket holding Romulus and Remus to the foot of the Palatine, where it lodged among fig tree roots near the Lupercal cave, delivering Rome's founders to the she-wolf who would save them.
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