2023年6月6日 · Aeneas is (somewhat) more central to Ursula Le Guin’s Lavinia (2008), a novel that retells the second half of the Aeneid from the perspective of Aeneas’ bride-to-be Lavinia. Aeneas also features in video games such as Warriors: Legends of Troy (where he is a playable character) and Total War Saga: Troy.

2023年10月4日 · Aeneas fled Troy when it was sacked by the Greeks and went on to become the ancestor of the Roman people. Anchises, son of Capys, was a member of the royal family of Troy. His son was the hero Aeneas, born from Anchises’ union with the goddess Aphrodite.

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 ...

AEneas was the first who dared to stay; Apollo wedged him in the warrior’s way, But swell’d his bosom with undaunted might, Half-forced and half-persuaded to the fight. Like young Lycaon, of the royal line, In voice and aspect, seem’d the power divine; And bade the chief reflect, how late with scorn In distant threats he braved the ...

2023年10月5日 · 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.

2023年2月13日 · Dido was a Phoenician princess who founded and ruled over Carthage after her brother Pygmalion forced her to flee her home. When Aeneas was shipwrecked on her shores, Dido was so consumed by love for him that she killed herself when he continued his journey to …

But far above the rest in beauty shines The great Aeneas, the troop he joins; Like fair Apollo, when he leaves the frost Of wint’ry Xanthus, and the Lycian coast, When to his native Delos he resorts, Ordains the dances, and renews the sports; Where painted Scythians, mix’d with Cretan bands, Before the joyful altars join their hands ...

Aeneas went Sad from the cave, and full of discontent, Unknowing whom the sacred Sibyl meant. Achates, the companion of his breast, Goes grieving by his side, with equal cares oppress’d. Walking, they talk’d, and fruitlessly divin’d What friend the priestess by those words design’d.

The good Aeneas, paternal care Iulus’ absence could no longer bear, Dispatch’d Achates to the ships in haste, To give a glad relation of the past, And, fraught with precious gifts, to bring the boy, Snatch’d from the ruins of unhappy Troy: A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire; An upper vest, once Helen’s rich attire, From Argos by ...

2023年3月23日 · 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 ...