In the Greek Mythology and Roman, Ascagne or Iule are the son of Énée and of Créüse (the girl of Priam).

Myth

According to the oldest version and most traditional of the legend, Ascagne flees of Troy with his/her father and his paternal grandfather Anchise. Later, it would have been sent by his father in Propontide to reign there before joining his cousin Astyanax, the son of Hector, in order to restore the city of Troy. One second version claims that Ascagne accompanied his/her father in Italy but that in its old age Énée returned in Troade, would have reigned on Troy, before yielding the kingdom to his/her son.

However the most known tradition is the Roman tradition, recovery in the Énéide , where Ascagne makes stock in Italy following his/her father. Virgile represents it to us like a character whom incarnates the hope of Troyens survivors, adored by his father and his paternal grandmother, the goddess Aphrodite, but sometimes awkward who for example starts the hostilities with the Latin by killing a crowned hind.

With died of his/her father, the Roman tradition represents Ascagne reigning on Latin and Troyens joined together, fighting against the Étrusques over which it would have gained a victory at the edge of the Numicius . Finally he is regarded as the founder of Alba-the-Long, approximately 30 years after the foundation of Lavinia by his father. He is constrained there by the hostility of Latin which take the party of his mother-in-law Lavinia, widow of Enée and her half-brother Silvius. It is however the latter which succeeds to him on the throne of Alba.

It is known sometimes among Romans under the name of Iule , in Latin Iulus , which made it possible the family of the Iulii to claim to go down from him. The origin of this name is explained in the following way: with the disappearance of Énée of the engagements burst between Troyens linked with Latin, directed by Ascagne, and the Etruscan Rutules and their allies. Ascagne is victorious and receives the nickname of Iobum or diminutive Iolum of Jupiter. Ascagne by this nickname would have become “small Jupiter”. Caton in its Origines brings back already this etymology. Another tradition allots this name to the son of Ascagne, isolated of the throne of Alba by his/her uncle Silvius who in fact a priest.

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