Aeneas
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 Virgil mention him in their stories. Virgil 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 relate to the story of "pious Aeneas".[1] 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 flees burning Troy, Federico Barocci, 1598 (Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy)
Coinage of Aenea, with portrait of Aeneas. c. 510–480 BCE.
William Blake Richmond - Venus and Anchises - Google Art Project
Denier frappé sous César célébrant le mythe d'Enée et d'Anchise*Description revers : Énée nu marchant à gauche, tenant de la main droite le palladium et portant, sur son épaule, son père Anchise .
Venus as Huntress Appears to Aeneas, by Pietro da Cortona
Aeneas tells Dido about the fall of Troy, by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
Aeneas and the god Tiber, by Bartolomeo Pinelli
Lea Desandre performs an aria from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with Les Arts Florissants in 2020
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References
- ↑ Moseley, Nicholas. "Pius Aeneas," The Classical Journal, Vol. 20, No. 7 (Apr., 1925), pp. 387-400; retrieved 2011-10-31.