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Aeneas is mentioned in the Iliad as some kind of company captain in the Trojan army; since Hector is the commander in chief of the Trojan forces, the relation between the two heroes must have been close.

In the Aeneid the ghost of Hector brings Aeneas the penates of Troy to carry to Italy.

The penates were the special gods who guarded a city - its soul. A city only truly died when its penates were destroyed or captured.

Since Aeneas carried Troy's penates to Italy, where they eventually became the penates of Rome, Rome was the reincarnation of Troy.

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