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 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 ).

A 1st-century terracotta expressing the pietas of Aeneas, who carries his aged father and leads his young son

Furor is also personified in the character Dido ; however, although her furor conflicts with Aeneas ' pietas, she herself is not pitted against Aeneas.

This section has been interpreted to mean that for the entire passage of the poem, Aeneas who symbolizes pietas ( reason ) in a moment becomes furor ( fury ), thus destroying what is essentially the primary theme of the poem itself.

Moreover, as is well-known, the historical Antony and Cleopatra were the prototypes and antitypes for Virgil ’ s Dido and Aeneas: Dido, ruler of the north African city of Carthage, tempts Aeneas, the legendary exemplar of Roman pietas, to forego his task of founding Rome after the fall of Troy.

Cicero defined pietas as " justice towards the gods .” It went beyond sacrifice and correct ritual performance to inner devotion and righteousness of the individual, and was the cardinal virtue of the Roman hero Aeneas in Vergil's Aeneid.

Aeneas is given a vision of the future majesty of Rome, which it was his duty to found, and returns to the world of the living.

Jupiter in Book 4 recalls the lingering Aeneas to his duty to found a new city, and he slips away from Carthage, leaving Dido to commit suicide, cursing Aeneas and calling down revenge in a symbolic anticipation of the fierce wars between Carthage and Rome.

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.

The fictional Aeneas dutifully resists Dido ’ s temptation and abandons her to forge on to Italy, placing political destiny before romantic love, in stark contrast to his historical counterpart Antony, who puts passionate love of his own African queen, Cleopatra, before duty to Rome.

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.

In an invention of Virgil ( Aeneid VI ), Daedalus flies to Cumae and founds his temple there, rather than in Sicily ; long afterwards Aeneas confronts the sculpted golden doors of the temple.

In the Aeneid ( published circa 17 BC ), Vergil claims the descent of Augustus Caesar's Julian clan from the hero Aeneas through his son Ascanius, also called Iulus.

* Mimas ( Aeneid ), a son of Amycus and Theona, who escorted Aeneas to Italy

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Aeneas leads a group of survivors away from the city, among them his son Ascanius ( also known as Iulus ), his trumpeter Misenus, father Anchises, the healer Iapyx, his faithful sidekick Achates, and Mimas as a guide.

In addition, the Aeneid attempted to legitimize the rule of Julius Caesar ( and by extension, of his adopted son Augustus and his heirs ) by renaming Aeneas ' son, Ascanius ( called Ilus from Ilium, meaning Troy ), Iulus and offering him as an ancestor of the gens Julia, the family of Julius Caesar, and many other great imperial descendants as part of the prophecy given to him in the Underworld.

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.

* Four talks by scholars on aspects of the Aeneid ( including Virgil's relationship to Roman history, the Rome of Caesar Augustus, the challenges of translating Latin poetry, and Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas ), delivered at the Maine Humanities Council's Winter Weekend program.

According to ancient historians, who perhaps wanted to link Venetic origins to legend of Roman origins in Troy, the Veneti ( often called the Paleoveneti ) came from Paphlagonia in Anatolia at the time of the Fall of Troy ( 12th century BC ), led by prince Antenor, a comrade of Aeneas.

The manuscript contains eight miniatures: the wheel of fortune ( which actually is an illustration from the songs CB 14 – 18, but was placed by the book binder as the cover ), an imaginative forest, a pair of lovers, scenes from the story of Dido and Aeneas, a scene of drinking beer, and three scenes of playing games – dice, tables, and chess.

According to a rare version of the myth, Aeneas married Anius's daughter Lavinia ( or Launa ), who, like her father, had prophetic abilities and bore Aeneas a son, who was also named Anius.

In the 1st century BC., the Roman poet Virgil describes Charon in the course of Aeneas ’ s descent to the underworld ( Aeneid, Book 6 ), after the Cumaean Sibyl has directed the hero to the golden bough that will allow him to return to the world of the living:

However another account by Virgil in his Aeneid ( 3. 163f ), has Aeneas in a dream learn from his ancestral Penates that " Dardanus and Father Iasius " and the Penates themselves originally came from Hesperia which was afterward renamed as Italy.