List of the kings of Alba Longa
Lists of the Latin kings of the city of Alba Longa and, at the same time, lists of the descendants of Aeneas have been handed down many times. a. by Titus Livius , Ovid , Dionysius of Halicarnassus , Diodor and Cassius Dio .
The surviving lists all come from Augustan or later times, but both the similarities and the deviations refer to the existence of previous lists from the older or more recent annals . The gap of several hundred years between a state of myth in which Ilia , the daughter of Aeneas, is the mother of Romulus and Remus , and the first beginnings of Latin chronologies, at least at the beginning of Roman historiography, had an urgent need for replenishment and Awaken supplement: The Trojan War and with it the arrival of Aeneas in Italy was traditionally started in the end of the 12th century BC. Dated to the middle of the 8th century B.C. , the beginnings of Rome according to the retrospective calculation, which was basically only established in the time of Augustus . The names of some of the inserted persons are evidently aetiologically formed from place names (Tiberinus, Aventinus), others resorted to mythological figures (Capys, Atys).
The lists often do not agree in the details, but can still be largely parallelized. The following table shows the different lists placed side by side and numbered consecutively, starting with Aeneas. It should be noted that Iulus / Askanius is the founder and thus the first king of Alba Longa, but the second in the list. Dionysios and the chronograph from 354 also indicate the number of years of reign.
A series of kings from the family of Aeneas is also given by Virgil , but this differs greatly from the king lists given above: Silvius , Procas , Capys , Numitor , Aeneas Silvius and finally Romulus .
A complete list is not available for the period from Numitor to the destruction of Alba Longa. Plutarch reports that after Numitor's death his grandson Romulus renounced the throne to which he was entitled and instead had the city ruled by an annually changing head. This is said to have possessed the same power as a king and was called Dictator . For the time of the Roman king Tullus Hostilius , Gaius Cluilius is named for Alba Longa as king . He was followed by the dictator Mettius Fufetius .
According to a different version mentioned by Plutarch, Romulus and Remus should not have been the grandsons of Numitor, but their mother was the servant of a King Tarchetius not mentioned by other authors .
literature
- Theodor Mommsen : The Roman chronology up to Caesar. 2nd edition Weidmann, Berlin 1859, pp. 151-161 digitized
- David Heinrich Müller : Alba Longa. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 1301 f.
- Conrad Trieber : On the criticism of Eusebios. I. The King's Table from Alba Longa. In: Hermes 29th Vol., H. 1 (1894), pp. 124-142
Individual evidence
- ^ Gary D. Farney: Ethnic identity and aristocratic competition in Republican Rome . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007, ISBN 0-521-86331-7 , pp. 54-56 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ^ Livy Ab urbe condita 1,3
- ^ Ovid Fasti 4 Praefatio
- ^ Ovid Metamorphoses 14,609-621
- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus Antiquitates Romanae 1.71
- ↑ The total number of years in government is 429.
- ↑ Diodor Bibliotheca historica 7 Frag. 5
- ↑ The total number of years in government is 446.
- ^ Cassius Dio fr. 4, handed down in Epitome of Johannes Zonaras
- ↑ Latina historia de origine gentis Romanae. In: Theodor Mommsen , Act. soc. Lips. II p. 689ff
- ↑ Chronographus anni CCCLIIII . In: Theodor Mommsen (Ed.): Auctores antiquissimi 9: Chronica minora saec. IV. V. VI. VII. (I). Berlin 1892, p. 143 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
- ↑ The sum of the government years is 432.
- ↑ Virgil Aeneid 756-800
- ↑ Plutarch Romulus 27
- ↑ So Dionysius of Halicarnassus Antiquitates Romanae 5,74 with reference to Gaius Licinius Macer , according to which the Romans are said to have taken over their dictatorial office from the Albanians.
- ^ Livy Ab urbe condita 1,22
- ↑ Plutarch Romulus 2 with reference to Promathion