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Aeneas Flees Burning Troy, by Federico Barocci (1598). Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy Map of Aeneas' fictional journey. The Aeneid (/ ɪ ˈ n iː ɪ d / ih-NEE-id; Latin: Aenēĭs [ae̯ˈneːɪs] or [ˈae̯neɪs]) is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.
In modern literature, Aeneas is the speaker in two poems by Allen Tate, "Aeneas at Washington" and "Aeneas at New York". He 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 defeats Turnus, by Luca Giordano, 1634–1705. Though Virgil's sweeping descriptions cannot be seen, Aeneas is holding his shield in his left hand. The Shield of Aeneas is the shield that Aeneas receives from the god Vulcan in Book VIII of Virgil's Aeneid to aid in his war against the Rutuli. Imprinted on the front of the shield is a ...
Aeneas attempts three times to hug his father, but has no success as his father's shade is like thin air, or empty dreams. In spite of this, they have a happy encounter and Anchises tells his son about the nearby river Lethe , the river of forgetfulness, on the other side of which were a multitude of spirits waiting to be born on Earth.
Aeneas (Αἰνείας), son of Aphrodite; cousin of Hector; Hector's principal lieutenant; the only major Trojan figure to survive the war. Held by later tradition to be the forefather of the founders of Rome. See the Aeneid. Agenor (Ἀγήνωρ), a Trojan warrior who attempts to fight Achilles in Book 21.
The book is based on the last six books, or the Iliadic half, of the Aeneid.It is written in a first-person style, and the character Lavinia is aware that she may only exist in the context of a story which an outside narrator is recounting.
A minor one, for instance, concerns Turnus and Enéas: in Virgil, Aeneas kills Turnus, at the end of the epic, because he recognizes the swordbelt that Turnus took from Pallas. In the Roman , it is a ring that Enéas recognizes, a motif that Michelle Freeman sees repeated in Marie de France 's "Le Fresne" .
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