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

Aeneas and main
In modern literature, Aeneas appears in David Gemmell's Troy series as a main heroic character who goes by the name Helikaon.
Other epithets can easily be omitted without serious risk of confusion, and are therefore known ( again in Latin ) as epitheton ornans ; thus the classical Roman author Virgil systematically called his main hero pius Aeneas, the epithet being pius, which means religiously observant, humble and wholesome, as well as calling the armsbearer of Aeneas fidus Achates, the epithet being fidus, which means faithful or loyal.

Aeneas and character
Aeneas ' character had hitherto been that of an easy and democratic-minded man of the world with no pretense to strictness in morals or consistency in politics.
According to Aeneas ' account, the wealthy cardinal Guillaume d ' Estouteville of Rouen, though a Frenchman and of apparently exceptionable character, seemed certain to be elected.
It was the peculiar faculty of Aeneas to accommodate himself perfectly to whatever position he might be called upon to occupy, and he now believed that he could exploit this adaptability to assume the papacy with appropriate success and personal character.
A further focus of study is the character of Aeneas.
Furor is also personified in the character Dido ; however, although her furor conflicts with Aeneas ' pietas, she herself is not pitted against Aeneas.
In composing the character of Aeneas, Virgil alludes to Augustus, suggesting that the gods work their ways through humans, using Aeneas to found Rome and Augustus to lead it, and that one must accept one's fate.
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 Ursula K. Le Guin's 2008 novel Lavinia, the character of Lavinia and her relationship with Aeneas is expanded and elaborated, giving insight into the life of a king's daughter in ancient Italy.
The name Latin " Silvanus " may be derived from pre-Roman Italian languages ( see, e. g., the character " Asilas ," an Etruscan leader and warrior-prophet who plays a prominent role in assisting Aeneas in Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid ).
The poem opens with a discussion of Juno's wrath against Rome on account of Aeneas ' treatment of Dido and of Hannibal's character and upbringing.

Aeneas and Ursula
The perceived deficiency of any account of Aeneas ' marriage to Lavinia or his founding of the Roman race led some writers, such as the 15th-century Italian poet Maffeo Vegio ( through his Mapheus Vegius widely printed in the Renaissance ), Pier Candido Decembrio ( whose attempt was never completed ), Claudio Salvucci ( in his 1994 epic poem The Laviniad ), and Ursula K. Le Guin ( in her 2008 novel Lavinia ) to compose their own supplements.

Aeneas and .
In the Iliad, when Diomedes injured Aeneas, Apollo rescued him.
First, Aphrodite tried to rescue Aeneas but Diomedes injured her as well.
Aeneas was then enveloped in a cloud by Apollo, who took him to Pergamos, a sacred spot in Troy.
In Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, the hero, Aeneas, travels to the underworld to see his father.
Lastly, his father shows him all of the future heroes of Rome who will live if Aeneas fulfills his destiny in founding the city.
Aeneas flees burning Troy, Federico Barocci, 1598.
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.
His father was the second cousin of King Priam of Troy, making Aeneas Priam's second cousin, once removed.
Aeneas carrying Anchises, black-figured oinochoe, ca.
Aphrodite and Apollo rescue Aeneas from combat with Diomedes of Argos, who nearly kills him, and carry him away to Pergamos for healing.
During Virgil's time Aeneas was well-known and various versions of his adventures were circulating in Rome, including Roman Antiquities by Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( relying on Marcus Terentius Varro, Ab Urbe Condita by Livy ( probably dependent on Quintus Fabius Pictor, fl.
When Troy was sacked by the Greeks, Aeneas, after being commanded by the gods to flee, gathered a group, collectively known as the Aeneads, who then traveled to Italy and became progenitors of Romans.
Aeneas tells Dido about the fall of Troy, by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin.
After a brief but fierce storm sent up against the group at Juno's request, Aeneas and his fleet made landfall at Carthage after six years of wanderings.
Aeneas had a year-long affair with the Carthaginian queen Dido ( also known as Elissa ), who proposed that the Trojans settle in her land and that she and Aeneas reign jointly over their peoples.

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