Aeneas

Reading notes

• The Loves §1.8 Aeneas

  Trojan son of Venus and forefather of Rome; 'the city of her own Aeneas' is Venus's Rome, where love now reigns.

• The Art of Love §1.2 Aeneas

  Trojan son of Venus, ancestor of the Romans; Rome is the city of his line, where his mother Venus presides.

• The Heroides §7 son of Dardanus

  Aeneas, the Trojan prince descended from Dardanus, founder of the Trojan line; the addressee, bound by fate for Italy.

• The Heroides §7 Aeneas

  The Trojan hero, son of Venus and Anchises; he leaves Dido to seek his fated kingdom in Italy.

• Letters from the Black Sea §1.1 son of Aeneas

  Aeneas, the Trojan ancestor of the Julian line, who carried his father Anchises from burning Troy; Augustus claimed descent from him through Iulus.

• The Festivals §4.proem Aeneas

  Son of Venus and Anchises, who bore his household gods from Troy to Italy and founded the Roman race.

• The Festivals §5.12 Aeneas

  The Trojan hero, son of Venus and ancestor of the Julian house; one of those said to have borne off the Palladium.

• The Festivals §6.9 Aeneas

  The Trojan hero, son of Venus and ancestor of the Julian house; one of those said to have borne off the Palladium.

• The Festivals §11 Aeneas

  Trojan hero, son of Venus, who brings the gods of Ilium and his father to Italy; ancestor of Rome.

• Metamorphoses §13.415 Cytherean hero

  Aeneas, son of Venus and Anchises, who escaped Troy bearing his father.

• Metamorphoses §15.494 weeping Aeneas

  The Trojan hero and ancestor of Rome, to whom Helenus prophesies.

• Metamorphoses §15.508 the sons of Aeneas

  The Aeneadae, the Romans as descendants of Aeneas.

• Sorrows §1.2 Aeneas

  The Trojan hero and ancestor of Rome, kept safe by his mother Venus despite Juno's hatred.