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The Aeneid
The Aeneid is an epic poem written by Virgil in the 1st century BC. It tells the tale of Aeneas, a Trojan.
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In the Aeneid who is Anchises?
Father of Aeneas. He took him out of the burning city of Troy on his shoulders. This scene is often depicted as an example of respect for the elderly and love for one's parents.
Aeneas' father is Anchises - a mortal. Anchises is visited in Book VI of the Aeneid where Aeneas discovers that his father is among the blessed dead. (More than a ghost, but less than a god: something like a minor Roman Catholic saint).
aeneas' father was anchises (his mother was venus)
Ankhises
In the Aeneid the Trojan prince Aeneas is told to go to Italy to found a city which will in time give rise to Rome.
Aeneas doesn't really know where Italy is, but he sets out to find it.
When did Virgil write The Aeneid?
Vergil left the Aeneid incomplete at his death in 19 BC. He seems to have been working on the poem for at least ten years.
Vergil left instructions that the poem should be destroyed if he died before it was finished. Luckily his executors ignored this codicil.
last line translates as when unworthy life flees with a groan, under the shades.. describing Turnus' death. Aeneas kills Turnus after Turnus begs him to spare him, but Aeneas becomes outraged and inflamed by the furies after seeing Pallas' belt which Turnus had taken after killing him.
Who guides Aeneas through the underworld?
Sybil leads him down to Hades, and his father shows him the fruit of his efforts to reestablish Troy.
