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Aeneas carrying Anchises, about 500 BC, Louvre

Aeneas was a Trojan prince and hero. His father was Anchises, his mother was the Greek goddess Aphrodite (Venus in the case of Roman sources). Both Homer and Vergil mention him in their stories. Vergil wrote a whole series of books about him. These books are called Aeneis in their original Latin. The usual English translation of the title is Aeneid.

The books are the story of ""pious Aeneas". and about how the city of Rome came to be.

The tale starts with Aeneas carrying his father out of the burning Troy, and end with Romulus and Remus founding Rome (after Aeneas landed on the coast, after sailing the Mediterranean Sea for a long time). Aeneas also appears in Book 5 of the Iliad written by Homer.

William Shakespeare also wrote a story mentioning Aeneas. Christopher Marlowe wrote a play about Aeneas and Dido, the queen who fell in love with him. There is also an opera about Dido and Aeneas, written by Henry Purcell.

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  • Aeneas' Flight from Troy by Federico Barocci

    Aeneas flees burning Troy, Federico Barocci, 1598.

  • William Blake Richmond - Venus and Anchises - Google Art Project

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  • Denier frappé sous César célébrant le mythe d'Enée et d'Anchise

    Aeneas and Anchises

  • Venus as Huntress Appears to Aeneas

    Venus as Huntress Appears to Aeneas, by Pietro da Cortona.

  • Guérin Énée racontant à Didon les malheurs de la ville de Troie Louvre 5184

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

  • B. PINELLI, Enea e il Tevere

    Aeneas and the god Tiber, by Bartolomeo Pinelli.

  • Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Mercury Appearing to Aeneas - WGA22338

    Mercury Appearing to Aeneas, by Tiepolo (1757).

  • 'Flight of Aeneas from Troy', fresco painting by Girolamo Genga, 1507-1510, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena

    Flight of Aeneas from Troy, by Girolamo Genga (between 1507 and 1510).

  • Aeneas and his Father Fleeing Troy by Simon Vouet, San Diego Museum of Art

    Aeneas and his Father Fleeing Troy, by Simon Vouet (c. 1635).

  • Enée & Anchise Lepautre Louvre M.R.2028 noir

    Aeneas & Anchises, by Pierre Lepautre (c. 1697).

  • Batoni, Pompeo — Aeneas fleeing from Troy — 1750

    Aeneas fleeing from Troy, by Pompeo Batoni (c. 1750).

  • Dido and Aeneas LACMA M.81.199

    Dido and Aeneas, by Rutilio Manetti (c. 1630)

  • Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland - The Meeting of Dido and Aeneas - Google Art Project

    The Meeting of Dido and Aeneas, by Nathaniel Dance-Holland

  • Thomas Jones - Landscape with Dido and Aeneas - WGA11966

    Landscape with Dido and Aeneas, by Thomas Jones (1769)

  • The-Meeting-Of-Dido-And-Aeneas

    Dido meeting Aeneas, by Johann Heinrich the Elder Tischbein (3 January 1780)

  • Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 038

    Aeneas Introducing Cupid Dressed as Ascanius to Dido, by Tiepolo (1757).

  • Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 054

    Venus Appearing to Aeneas on the Shores of Carthage, by Tiepolo (1757).


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