Aeneas

(noun)

A Trojan survivor of the Trojan War who, according to legend, journeyed to Italy and founded the bloodline that would eventually lead to the Julio-Claudian emperors.

Related Terms

  • Romulus
  • Rome

Examples of Aeneas in the following topics:

  • Passage 1.1

    • Paene omnēs Troianī interficiuntur, sed Aeneas heros paucōs duxit ut ā telīs Graecōrum fugiant et domum novam petant. 
    • Aeneas, vir fortis, dux est.
    • Aeneas ā Troiā navigat dum incendatur ut populum suum servet, suōs larēs penatesque. 
    • Prīmum ad Thraciam, tum ad Cretam navigat, sed in locīs omnibus periculum invenitur, et Aeneas deōs rogat cur locī non tutī populō suō sint. 
  • The Founding of Rome

    • The national epic of mythical Rome, the Aeneid by Virgil, tells the story of how the Trojan prince, Aeneas, came to Italy.
    • The hero, Aeneas, was already well known within Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad.
    • The shield of Aeneas even depicts Augustus’s victory at Actium in 31 BCE.
    • Aeneas' arrival started a series of armed conflicts with Turnus over the marriage of Lavinia.
    • Before the arrival of Aeneas, Turnus was engaged to Lavinia, who then married Aeneas, which began the conflict.
  • Passage 1.3

    • Aeneas rogat ut deī eī auxilium dent. 
  • QUANTITY

    • Some exceptions occur, chiefly in proper names derived from the Greek; as, Aenēās.
  • QUANTITY

    • Some exceptions occur, chiefly in proper names derived from the Greek; as, Aenēās.
  • The Romans

    • The Romans relied on two sets of these to explain their origins: the first story tells the tale of Romulus and Remus, while the second tells that of Aeneas and the Trojans, who survived the sack of Troy by the Greeks.
    • Romulus killed his twin brother, Remus, in a fit of rage, and Aeneas slaughtered his rival Turnus in combat.
  • Imperial Sculpture in the Early Roman Empire

    • Cupid is the son of Venus, as was Aeneas, the legendary ancestor of the Roman people.
    • The Julian family traced their ancestry back to Aeneas and, therefore, consider themselves descendants of Venus.
  • Art and Literature in the Roman Republic

    • His Aeneid tells the story of the flight of Aeneas from Troy and his settlement of the city that would become Rome.
  • Italian Politics

    • Aeneas Sylvius, Bishop of Siena and later Pope Pius II, said of him: "Political questions are settled in [Cosimo's] house.
  • Sonata Form: The Development

    • It is named the "lament" progression because in early classical music, this chord progression (almost always in minor) was used as the ground bass (a repeated bass pattern that formed be foundation for a set of variations, not unlike the cyclical progressions of pop/rock songs) for songs of lament.Examples include "Dido's Lament" by Henry Purcell, from the opera Dido and Aeneas, and J.S.
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