Aeneas fled Troy after its fall and landed in Latium on the Italian peninsula. He married Lavinia, daughter of King Latin, and their descendants defeated the Etruscans. Aeneas' son Ascanius founded the city of Alba Longa. Four hundred years later, the twins Romulus and Remus were born to the Vestal Virgin Rhea Silvia and the god Mars. They were abandoned but suckled by a she-wolf and raised by a shepherd. As adults, they quarreled over where to found a new city and Romulus killed Remus, going on to found Rome on the Palatine Hill and become its first king. The she-wolf became an