Many clans have often claimed mythological founders which reinforced their status and gave a romantic and glorified notion of their origins.

These are 36 biographies of Petrarch's subjects starting with Romulus, the mythological founder of Rome, and going through Trajan.

Oghuz Khan is considered mythological founder of Turkic people, and ancestor of Oghuz subbranch of Turks.

The moon is named after Romulus, the mythological founder of Rome, one of the twins of Rhea Silvia raised by a wolf.

The mythological founder of the other half of Zatrijebač was Ban Keqi, who is said to have arrived some 100 years after Keq Preka.

Otrera is sometimes considered the mythological founder of the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, which was closely connected with Amazons.

Ma then burned joss sticks, laid a wreath, and offered fruit, cloth, and wine to the mythological national founder.

The lion represents Hercules, one of the mythological founders of Viterbo.

To the very east is an open vaulted hall with a statue of Numa Pompilius, the mythological founder of the cult.

Olynthus, son of Heracles, was considered the mythological founder of the town.