Aeneas was then enveloped in a cloud by Apollo, who took him to Pergamos, a sacred spot in Troy.

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.

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.

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.

However, the messenger god Mercury was sent by Jupiter and Venus to remind Aeneas of his journey and his purpose, compelling him to leave secretly.

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

Aeneas was recognized as the god Jupiter Indiges.

The most recent cinematic portrayal of Aeneas was in the film Troy, in which he appears as a youth charged by Paris to protect the Trojan refugees, and to continue the ideals of the city and its people.

Aeneas was helped by Artemis, Leto, and Apollo.

In the early 19th century the basics of modern techniques including pre-heating and reflux were developed, particularly by the French, then in 1830 a British Patent was issued to Aeneas Coffey for a whiskey distillation column, which worked continuously and may be regarded as the archetype of modern petrochemical units.

Tarquitus was slain by Aeneas.

Caesar was born into a patrician family, the gens Julia, which claimed descent from Iulus, son of the legendary Trojan prince Aeneas, supposedly the son of the goddess Venus.

It was the birthplace of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, Pope Pius II, in whose employ Alberti served.

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 ).

Pope Pius II, born Enea Silvio Piccolomini ( Latin Aeneas Sylvius ; 18 October 1405 – 14 August 1464 ) was Pope from 19 August 1458 until his death in 1464.

In 1450 Aeneas was sent as ambassador by the Emperor Frederick III to negotiate his marriage with Princess Eleonore of Portugal.

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.

He was born in Siena, the nephew of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, the future Pope Pius II, by his sister Laodamia.

He was received as a boy into the household of Aeneas Silvius, who permitted him to assume the name and arms of the Piccolomini family ( his brother Antonio being made Duke of Amalfi during the pontificate of Pius II ).

In 1502 the Cardinal commissioned a library with access from an aisle of the Duomo di Siena that was intended to house the library of humanist texts assembled by his uncle and commissioned the artist Pinturicchio to fresco its vault and ten narrative panels along the walls depicting scenes from the life of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini.

Other children of Priam and Hecuba include the prophetic Helenus and Cassandra ; eldest daughter Ilione ; Deiphobus ; Troilus ; Polites ; Creusa, wife of Aeneas ; Laodice, wife of Helicaon ; Polyxena, who was slaughtered on the grave of Achilles ; and Polydorus, his youngest son.

The Romans later traced their origin to Aeneas, one of the Trojans, who was said to have led the surviving Trojans to modern day Italy.

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.

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.

The history of Aeneas is continued by Roman authors.

Aeneas tells Dido about the fall of Troy, by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin.

She then committed suicide by stabbing herself with the same sword she gave Aeneas when they first met.

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

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

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.

In modern literature, Aeneas appears in David Gemmell's Troy series as a main heroic character who goes by the name Helikaon.

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

In the Aeneid by Virgil, Juno offers Aeolus the nymph Deiopea as a wife if he will release his winds upon the fleet of Aeneas.

* 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.

The composition of his chamber opera Dido and Aeneas, which forms a very important landmark in the history of English dramatic music, has been attributed to this period, and its earliest production may well have predated the documented one of 1689.

At the time Dido and Aeneas never found its way to the theatre, though it appears to have been very popular in private circles.

The onlooker with his staff, could be Aeneas, a hero of the Trojan Wars who saved his father by carrying over his back ( hence his hunched position, and his Trojan beard ) and who is believed to have founded Rome, and from whom the Julian clan, thus Julius Caesar and Attia, claimed descent, witnessing the conception of Rome's future savior as an Empire, and the greatest of all the Emperors.

The Trojans were thought to have landed in an area between modern Anzio and Fiumicino, southwest of Rome: probably at Laurentum, or in other versions, at Lavinium, a place named for Lavinia, the daughter of King Latinus, whom Aeneas married.

The myth of Aeneas, Greek in origin, had to be reconciled with the Italian myth of Romulus and Remus, who taken as historical figures would have been born around 771 BC.

He is also said to have had a daughter called Roma, who married Aeneas ( Serv.

He vanquished ( and could have killed ) Hector ( the greatest Trojan Warrior ) on two occasions and Aeneas ( the second best Trojan warrior ) once.

The Gens Julia, or the Julians, the clan to which Julius Caesar belonged, claimed to have been descended from Ascanius / Iulus, his father Aeneas, and, ultimately, the goddess Venus, the mother of Aeneas in myth, his father being the mortal Anchises.

According to another legend mentioned by Livy, Ascanius may have been the son of Aeneas and Lavinia and thus born in Latium, not Troy.

As a member of the Julian family, he could claim to have four major Olympian gods in his family tree: ( Jupiter, Juno, Venus and Mars ), so he encouraged his many poets to emphasize his supposed descent from Aeneas.

Powell adds that in the dispute between Turnus and Aeneas, Turnus may have the moral upper hand, having been set to marry Lavinia first.

Similarly, Aeneades ( Ancient Greek: ) was a patronymic from Aeneas, and applied as a surname to those who were believed to have been descended from him, such as Ascanius, Augustus, and the Romans in general.

Aenides was another patronymic from Aeneas, which is applied by Valerius Flaccus to the inhabitants of Cyzicus, whose town was believed to have been founded by Cyzicus, the son of Aeneas and Aenete.

The idea of the good soul and the bad soul offering advice from above a person's shoulders is thought to have come from the idea that Anna told Dido what to do with Aeneas.

Several other sources, he notes, say that the novensiles are people ( homines ) who have become divus, " divine " or " deified '; among these divi are Hercules, Romulus, Aesculapius, Liber, and Aeneas.

** Some minor lines are omitted from various scenes, such as Lavinia's " Ay, for these slips have made him noted long " ( 2. 3. 87 ), Titus ' " Ah, wherefore dost thou urge the name of hands ,/ To bid Aeneas tell the tale twice o ’ er ,/ How Troy was burnt and he made miserable?

Rome had a semi-divine ancestor in the Trojan refugee Aeneas, son of Venus, who was said to have established the nucleus of Roman religion when he brought the Palladium, Lares and Penates from Troy to Italy.

The gens was always said to have descended from and been named after a mythical personage named Iulus or Iullus, even before he was asserted to be the son of Aeneas ; and it is entirely possible that Iulus was an ancient praenomen, which had fallen out of use by the early Republic, and was preserved as a cognomen by the eldest branch of the Julii.

Seeing a man named Aeneas, Paris hands him the Sword of Troy, repeating his father's words that the Trojans will have a future as long as the sword is in Trojan hands.

Henry Hoare was a collector of art-one of his pieces was Nicolas Poussin ’ s Aeneas at Delos, which is thought to have inspired the pictorial design of the gardens.

The first known performance of Dido and Aeneas was at Josias Priest's girls ' school in Chelsea, London no later than July 1688, although there has been speculation that it may have been written for an earlier performance at the court of Charles II or James II.