Aeneas defeats Turnus, by Luca Giordano, 1634 – 1705.

Virgil's text ends when Aeneas defeats Turnus in single combat and therefore gains the right to marry Lavinia.

The Genius ( mythology ) | genius of Aeneas is shown ascendant, looking into the light of the future, while that of Turnus is setting, shrouded in darkness.

His daughter Lavinia had been promised to Turnus, king of the Rutuli, but Latinus received a prophecy that Lavinia would be betrothed to one from another land — namely, Aeneas.

Latinus heeded the prophecy, and Turnus consequently declared war on Aeneas at the urging of Juno, who was aligned with King Mezentius of the Etruscans and Queen Amata of the Latins.

* The baldric of Pallas plays a key part in the Aeneid, leading Aeneas to kill Turnus.

The epic poem consists of 12 books in hexameter verse which describe the journey of Aeneas, a prince fleeing the sack of Troy, to Italy, his battle with the Italian prince Turnus, and the foundation of a city from which Rome would emerge.

Book 9 records an assault by Nisus and Euryalus on the Rutulians, 10, the death of Evander's young son Pallas, and 11 the death of the Volscian warrior princess Camilla and the decision to settle the war with a duel between Aeneas and Turnus.

The Aeneid ends in Book 12 with the taking of Latinus ' city, the death of Amata, and Aeneas ' defeat and killing of Turnus, whose pleas for mercy are spurned.

As the protagonist of the poem, Aeneas seems to constantly waver between his emotions and commitment to his prophetic duty to found Rome ; critics note the breakdown of Aeneas ' emotional control in the last sections of the poem where the " pious " and " righteous " Aeneas mercilessly slaughters Turnus.

Aeneas is representative of pietas ( a self-less sense of duty ), against Turnus, who is guided by Juno, representing unbridled furor ( mindless passion and fury ).

He followed Aeneas to Italy, where he was killed by Turnus.

His wife Amata wished his daughter Lavinia to be betrothed to Turnus, king of the Rutuli, but Faunus and the gods insisted that he give her instead to Aeneas ; Turnus consequently declared war on Aeneas and was killed two weeks into the conflict.

When war broke out between Aeneas and Turnus, Turnus tried to persuade Diomedes to aid them in the war against the Trojans.

Diomedes told them he had fought enough Trojans in his lifetime, and urged Turnus that it was best to make peace with Aeneas than to fight the Trojans.

Who accompanied Aeneas to Italy where he was killed by Turnus.

Because of their traditional ties, Evander aids Aeneas in his war against Turnus and the Rutuli: the Arcadian had known the father of Aeneas, Anchises, before the Trojan War, and shares a common ancestry through Atlas with Aeneas's family.

He joined Turnus in the war against Aeneas, " not because he liked Turnus but because of the hate caused by his ancient hostility ( towards Aeneas )", as Servius remarks.

It is one of the Italian male names ending in a, with others being Elia ( Elias ), Enea ( Aeneas ), Luca ( Lucas ), Mattia ( Matthias ), Nicola ( Nicholas ), Tobia ( Tobias ).

In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (; Greek:, Aineías, derived from Greek meaning " to praise ") was a Trojan hero, the son of the prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite.

According to the mythology outlined by Virgil in the Aeneid, Romulus and Remus were both descendants of Aeneas through their mother Rhea Silvia, making Aeneas progenitor of the Roman people.

Modeled after Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the Aeneid follows the Trojan refugee Aeneas as he struggles to fulfill his destiny and arrive on the shores of Italy — in Roman mythology the founding act of Rome.

In Roman mythology, she was the mother of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy.

European mistletoe, Viscum album, figured prominently in Greek mythology, and is believed to be The Golden Bough of Aeneas, ancestor of the Romans.

Julius was a Roman family, derived from a founder Julus, the son of Aeneas and Creusa in Roman mythology, although the name's etymology may possibly derive from Greek () " downy-bearded " or alternatively from the name of the Roman god Jupiter.

He is a character of Roman mythology, and has a divine lineage, being the son of Aeneas, who is son of Venus and the hero Anchises, a relative of Priam ; thus Ascanius has divine ascendents by both parents, being descendant of Jupiter, Juno and Dardanus.

In Greek and Roman mythology, Ascanius was the son of the Trojan prince Aeneas and Creusa, daughter of Priam.

In Roman mythology, Lavinia () is the daughter of Latinus and Amata and the last wife of Aeneas.

* Acmon, the Aenead, son of Clytius ( son of Aeolus ), a friend of Aeneas in Roman mythology

In Roman mythology, the Aeneads ( Αἰνειάδαι in Greek ) were the friends, family and companions of Aeneas, with whom they fled from Troy after the Trojan War.

In Roman mythology, King Numitor of Alba Longa, son of Procas, descendant of Aeneas the Trojan, was the father of Rhea Silvia.

In Roman mythology, Caieta was the wet-nurse of Aeneas.

In Greco-Roman mythology, Sergestus was a Trojan friend of Aeneas.

In Roman mythology, there is an entrance to the underworld located at Avernus, a crater lake near Cumae, and was the route Aeneas used to descend to the Underworld.

According to Roman mythology, which links Lavinium more securely to Rome, the city was named by Aeneas in honor of Lavinia, daughter of Latinus, king of the Latins, and his wife, Amata.

Along the way Allen meets a number of his Californian acquaintances and notable people from history ( e. g. Epictetus, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Bob Ford, L Ron Hubbard, Henry VIII of England, Vlad Tepes, Aimee Semple McPherson, William M. Tweed, Al Capone ) and from classical mythology ( e. g. Hector, Aeneas, Charon, Minos, Phlegyas, Geryon ).

Aeneas and the god Tiberinus ( god ) | Tiber, by Bartolomeo Pinelli.

Aeneas Bearing Anchises from Troy, by Carle van Loo, 1729 ( Musée du Louvre | Louvre ).

File: 5049 bassenge chiaroscuro. jpg | Ludolph Buesinck, Aeneas carries his father.

Aeneas tells Dido, Queen of Carthage | Dido about the fall of Troy, 1815.

In Homer, Aphrodite, venturing into battle to protect her son, Aeneas, is wounded by Diomedes and returns to her mother, to sink down at her knee and be comforted.

While down there, along with the dead, he is shown the place where the wrongly convicted reside, the fields of sorrow where those who committed suicide and now regret it reside, including Aeneas ' former lover, the warriors and shades, Tartarus ( where the titans and powerful non-mortal enemies of the Olympians reside ) where he can hear the groans of the imprisoned, the palace of Pluto, and the fields of Elysium where the descendants of the divine and bravest heroes reside.

The Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas is a template for a tapestry made by this factory.

In the Iliad, Aeneas is a minor character, where he is twice saved from death by the gods as if for an as yet unknown destiny.

Aeneas ' mother Aphrodite frequently comes to his aid on the battlefield ; he is a favorite of Apollo.

Even Poseidon, who normally favors the Greeks, comes to Aeneas ' rescue after he falls under the assault of Achilles, noting that Aeneas, though from a junior branch of the royal family, is destined to become king of the Trojan people.

The history of Aeneas is continued by Roman authors.

As seen in the first books of the Aeneid, Aeneas is one of the few Trojans who were not killed in battle or enslaved when Troy fell.

A marriage of sorts is arranged between Dido and Aeneas at the instigation of Juno, who was told of the fact that her favorite city would eventually be defeated by the Trojans ' descendants, and Aeneas's mother Venus ( the Roman adaptation of Aphrodite ), who realizes that her son and his company need a temporary reprieve to reinforce themselves for the journey to come.

The rest of Aeneas's biography is gleaned from Livy: Aeneas was victorious but Latinus died in the war.

In Virgil's Aeneid, Aeneas is described as strong and handsome, but his hair colour or complexion are not described.

Aeneas is the subject of the French mediaeval romance Roman d ' Enéas.

Aeneas is also a titular character in Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas ( c. 1688 ), and one of the principal roles in Hector Berlioz ' opera Les Troyens ( c. 1857 ).

Aeneas is a main character in Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia, a re-telling of the last six books of the Aeneid told from the point of view of Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus of Latium.

Aeneas is one of the mythical founders of the Ventrue Clan in the Role Playing game Vampire: the Requiem by White Wolf Game Studios.

It is at this point that Paris gives Aeneas Priam's sword, in order to give legitimacy and continuity to the Royal Line of Troy – and lay the foundations of Rome.

* The reception of Beowulf by the coast guard with drawn spear and a challenge but the situation is quickly smoothed over by an explanation of why the ship has arrived parallels Aeneas ' landing and very similar reception with drawn spear by Pallas in book VIII of the Aeneid.

A similar effect is found in VIII. 452, where Virgil describes how the blacksmith sons of Vulcan " take up their arms with great strength one to another " in forging Aeneas ' shield:

Despite the success of his masterwork Dido and Aeneas ( 1689 ), in which the action is furthered by the use of Italian-style recitative, much of Purcell's best work was not involved in the composing of typical opera, but instead he usually worked within the constraints of the semi-opera format, where isolated scenes and masques are contained within the structure of a spoken play, such as Shakespeare in Purcell's The Fairy-Queen ( 1692 ) and Beaumont and Fletcher in The Prophetess ( 1690 ) and Bonduca ( 1696 ).

The mezzo-soprano, a term of comparatively recent origin, also has a large repertoire, ranging from the female lead in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas to such heavyweight roles as Brangäne in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde ( these are both roles sometimes sung by sopranos ; there is quite a lot of movement between these two voice-types ).