Rome Family Tree (Includes Aeneas, Romulus, and Remus)

Do your students struggle to connect the myths surrounding the founding of Rome? I teach Ancient History to 7th grade and when we had gotten to the founding of Rome in the 3rd quarter of the school year, my students had already read Virgil's Aeneid in their Ancient Literature class and translated the myth about Romulus and Remus in their Latin class. So, when I asked them if they knew anything about the founding of Rome, they were confused.

I created this family tree to show my students how the people and the myths were connected. Beginning with Aeneas's parents and ending with Romulus and Remus, this family tree includes the key figures of those myths (Like Venus, Mars, and Rhea Silvia).

This resource should be partnered with an explanation of how Aeneas reached Italy in what would become Rome, but it wasn't until many generations later that Romulus and Remus were born, cast out, and raised by wolves, that they began Rome as we understand it in Ancient History class.