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Aeneas, son of Aphrodite and Anchises, was a Trojan hero who bravely fought against the Greeks during the Trojan War. Though the Greeks eventually sacked Troy, Aeneas managed to escape and settle in the West, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. Though originally a figure from Greek mythology, Aeneas was wholeheartedly adopted by the ...
Anchises was the son of Capys and a prince of Troy. As a young man, the handsome prince became a lover of Aphrodite, who bore him his heroic son Aeneas. Anchises was ordered to keep his relationship with Aphrodite secret, but he violated this promise; he was later severely punished for this indiscretion. When Troy fell to the Greeks during the ...
Dardanus. Dardanus was the son of Zeus and the Atlantid Electra. After meeting with misfortune in his homeland, he traveled to the Troad (the future location of Troy) and became ruler of the region, giving his name to the Dardanians. His descendants went on to found the city of Troy, thus making Dardanus the ancestor of the Trojan kings.
Aeneas and his men promptly retaliated, arming themselves and fighting the hideous creatures. Though the Harpies were immune to their weapons, Aeneas and his men did manage to drive them away. But one of the Harpies, Celaeno, lingered long enough to declare that Aeneas had sinned in trying to harm the Harpies and that he and his followers would ...
Each on his fellow for assistance calls; At length the fatal fabric mounts the walls, Big with destruction. Boys with chaplets crown’d, And choirs of virgins, sing and dance around. Thus rais’d aloft, and then descending down, It enters o’er our heads, and threats the town. O sacred city, built by hands divine!
Evander, son of Hermes, was a wise Arcadian who fled his homeland and immigrated to Italy. There he built the city of Pallantium on the site that would eventually become Rome. When the hero Aeneas later arrived in Italy, Evander supported him in his war against Turnus; but this support cost Evander the life of his son Pallas, who was killed in battle.
Juno and Aeneas In Virgil’s epic poem the Aeneid , Juno is depicted as the divine antagonist of Aeneas, the Trojan hero who came to Italy and became the ancestor of the Romans. Virgil’s Juno hates Aeneas because she hates all Trojans, but also because she is the patron goddess of Carthage, a city that would eventually be destroyed by Aeneas ...
Aeneas then advanc’d amidst the train, By thousands follow’d thro’ the flow’ry plain, To great Anchises’ tomb; which when he found, He pour’d to Bacchus, on the hallow’d ground, Two bowls of sparkling wine, of milk two more, And two (from offer’d bulls) of purple gore, With roses then the sepulcher he strow’d And thus his ...
Dido, also known as Elissa, was a Phoenician princess, the daughter of a king of Tyre known to Virgil as Belus. When her greedy brother Pygmalion murdered her rich husband Sychaeus, Dido fled to Africa, where she founded the city of Carthage. As queen of Carthage, Dido gave hospitality to the Trojan refugee Aeneas when he was shipwrecked on her ...
The hero Aeneas was also worshipped at this site, as either Pater Indiges or Jupiter Indiges. In Rome itself, there was a temple to Sol Indiges on the Quirinal (one of the seven hills of Rome). Deities called Indigetes are also attested in the Latin cities of Praeneste and Arpinum.