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AENEAS , the famous Trojan See also:

hero, son of See also:Anchises and See also:Aphrodite, one of the most important figures in See also:Greek and See also:Roman legendary See also:history. In See also:Homer, he is represented as the See also:chief See also:bulwark of the Trojans next to See also:Hector, and the favourite of the gods, who frequently interpose to See also:save him from danger (Iliad, v. 311). The See also:legend that he remained in the See also:country after the fall of See also:Troy, and founded a new See also:kingdom (Iliad, xx. 308; Hymn to Aphrodite, 196) is now generally considered to be of comparatively See also:late origin. The See also:story of his See also:emigration is See also:post-Homeric, and set forth in its fullest development by See also:Virgil in the Aeneid. Carrying his aged See also:father and See also:household gods on his back and leading his little son See also:Ascanius by the See also:hand, he makes his way to the See also:coast, his wife Creusa being lost during the See also:con-See also:fusion of the See also:flight. After a perilous voyage to See also:Thrace, See also:Delos, See also:Crete and See also:Sicily (where his father See also:dies), he is See also:cast up by a See also:storm, sent by See also:Juno, on the See also:African coast. Refusing to remain with See also:Dido, See also:queen of See also:Carthage, who in despair puts an end to her See also:life, he sets See also:sail from See also:Africa, and after seven years' wandering lands at the mouth of the See also:Tiber. He is hospitably received by See also:Latinus, See also:king of See also:Latium, is betrothed to his daughter Lavinia, and founds a See also:city called after her, See also:Lavinium. Turnus, king of See also:Rutuli, a rejected suitor, takes up arms against him and Latinus, but is defeated and slain by Aeneas on the See also:river Numicius. The story of the Aeneid ends with the See also:death of Turnus.

According to See also:

Livy (i. I. 2), Aeneas, after reigning a few years over Latium, is slain by the Rutuli; after the See also:battle, his See also:body cannot be found, and he is supposed to have been carried up to See also:heaven. He receives divine honours, and is worshipped under the name of See also:Jupiter Indiges (See also:Dionysius Halic. i. 64). See JA. Hild, La Legende d'Enee avant Vergile (1883) ; F. Cauer, De Fabulis Graecis ad Romam conditam pertinentibus (1884) and See also:Die Romische Aeneassage, von See also:Naevius bis Vergilius (1886) ; G. See also:Boissier, " La Legende d'Inee " in Revue See also:des Deux Mondes, See also:Sept. 1883; A. Forstemann, Zur Geschichte des Aeneasmythus (1894); articles in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopadie (new ed., 1894); See also:Roscher's See also:Lexicon der Mythologie; Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire des antiquites; See also:Preller's Griechische and romische Mythologie; and especially See also:Schwegler, Romische Geschichte (1867). Romances.—The story of Aeneas, as a sequel to the legend of Troy, formed the subject of several epic romances in the See also:middle ages.

The Roman d'Eneas (c. 116o, or later), of uncertain authorship (attributed by some to See also:

Benoit de Sainte-More), the first See also:French poem directly imitated from the Aeneid, is a fairly See also:close See also:adaptation of the See also:original. The See also:trouvere, however, omits the greater See also:part of the wanderings of Aeneas, and adorns his narrative with gorgeous descriptions, with accounts of the marvellous properties of beasts and stones, and of single combats among the knights who figure in the story. He also elaborates the episodes most attractive to his See also:audience, notably those of Dido and Aeneas and Lavinia, the last of whom plays a far more important part than in the Aeneid. Where possible, he substitutes human for divine intervention, and ignores the See also:idea I. 9w of the glorification of See also:Rome and See also:Augustus, which dominates the Virgilian epic. On this See also:work were founded the Eneide or Eneit (between I18o and 1190) of Heinrich von Veldeke, written in Flemish and now only extant in a version in the Thuringian See also:dialect, and the Eneydos, written by See also:William See also:Caxton in 1490. See Eneas, ed. J. Salverda de See also:Grave (See also:Halle, 1891) ; see also A. Peij, Essai sur li See also:romans d' Eneas (See also:Paris, 1856) ; A. See also:Duval in Hist. litteraire de la See also:France, xix.

; Veldeke's Eneide, ed. See also:

Ettmuller (See also:Leipzig, 1852) and O. Behaghel (See also:Heilbronn, 1882) ; Eneydos, ed. F. J. See also:Furnivall (189o). For See also:Italian versions see E. G. Parodi in Studi di filologia romanza (v. 1887).

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