Examples of Aeneas in the following topics:
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- 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.
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- His Aeneid tells the story of the flight of Aeneas from Troy and his settlement of the city that would become Rome.
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- Aeneas Sylvius, Bishop of Siena and later Pope Pius II, said of him: "Political questions are settled in [Cosimo's] house.