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3 unusual facts about Aeneas


Dionysus Aesymnetes

It was kept in a chest, and Cassandra, or, according to others, Aeneas, left this chest behind when she quit the city, because she knew that it would do injury to anyone who possessed it.

Janiculum

In Book VIII of the Aeneid by Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), King Evander shows Aeneas (the Trojan hero of this epic poem) the ruins of Saturnia and Janiculum on the Capitoline hill near the Arcadian city of Pallanteum (the future site of Rome) (see line 473, Bk. 8).

Poems 1912–13

Throughout Hardy's life, the stories of Tristan and Iseult, Aeneas and Dido, and Orpheus and Eurydice, stories about mythological figures that had loved and lost, helped to shape society's view.


Anchises

After the defeat of Troy in the Trojan War, the elderly Anchises was carried from the burning city by his son Aeneas, accompanied by Aeneas' wife Creusa, who died in the escape attempt, and small son Ascanius (the subject is depicted in several paintings, including a famous version by Federico Barocci in the Galleria Borghese in Rome.

Anxiety dream

This anxiety of not being able to escape (or catch up) was borrowed from Homer by Virgil in Book XII of the Aeneid, where Turnus is unable to catch up with Aeneas; subsequently the dream is found (always in simile, never reported directly) in Oppian's Halieutica, in Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, and in Phineas Fletcher's Locusts and Purple Island, to be "burlesqued" in Samuel Butler's Hudibras.

Brutus of Troy

In a variant version, the father is Silvius, who is identified as either the second son of Aeneas, previously mentioned in the Historia, or as the son of Ascanius.

Christopher Moulds

He conducted the new Dido and Aeneas and Die Entführung aus dem Serail in collaboration with the Berlin State Opera where Sasha Waltz appeared again.

Cymothoe

Cymothoe, one of the Nereids, known for helping Aeneas retrieve his ships, along with Triton, after Aeolus buffeted his fleet on the orders of Juno

Elsey Station

Aeneas and Jeannie Gunn arrived at Elsey in 1902, Gunn owned a quarter share in the property but died there in 1903 from Blackwater fever.

Ferdinand de Braekeleer the Elder

In 1813 he made his reputation at the Salon de Paris with his work Aeneas die Anchises redt uit de brand van Troje ("Aeneas saving Anchises from the fire of Troy").

Glenn Kesby

Other opera roles have included Silvio in Handel's Il Pastor Fido (Harmonie Universelle), Cupid in John Blow's Venus and Adonis, Spirit in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (Burghley Opera), Tolomeo in Julius Caesar, Arsamenes in Xerxes, Polinesso in Ariodante, and Venus in Pepusch's Venus and Adonis for the Handel House Museum.

Gnaeus Naevius

The earlier part of it treated of the mythical adventures of Aeneas in Sicily, Carthage, and Italy, and borrowed from the interview of Zeus and Thetis in the first book of the Iliad the idea of the interview of Jupiter and Venus; which Virgil has made one of the cardinal passages in the Aeneid.

House of Silva

Memorias de algunos linages antiguos e nobles de Castilla, Juan de Mena's work of the first half of the 15th century that is much prone to giving families mythical ancestries to link them to the glorious past, indicated that the Silva were "very old and noble knights and noblemen of high rank" with some writings claiming for them descent from the mythical Latin kings of Alba Longa (and hence from Aeneas of Troy).

Iphitos

In Aeneid Book II, Aeneas names Iphitos among half a dozen Trojan heroes who fight by his side during the fall of Troy.

Low Ham Roman Villa

The large 14 foot (4.3m) square mosaic depicts the story of Aeneas and Dido, as told in the 1st century BC by the Roman poet, Virgil.

Nancy Evans

In or before 1936 she took the part of Dido in the premiere recording of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with Roy Henderson as Aeneas, under Boyd Neel.

Province of Frosinone

This arrival is echoed in numerous legends, like those of Aeneas and Saturn: the latter, ousted by Olympus, would come to Lazio to help the men and found seven cities whose name begins with "A" (for example, Alatri and Anagni).

Solymus

A possibly different Solymus is mentioned by Ovid as a Phrygian companion of Aeneas and eponym of Sulmona.

Ulrich II, Count of Celje

Ulrich's high ambitions were criticized by Aeneas Sylvius (the later Pope Pius II), although his writings were politically minded.


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