The poem is named after the Trojan hero Aeneas, the son of Venus (Aphrodite in Greek mythology) and Anchises, a Trojan aristocrat. Aeneas leads the survivors from the sack of Troy through the ...

Later, she is said to have taken as her lover Aeneas, a Trojan prince fleeing his own native city after its destruction by a Greek army. But that is the limit of Greek influence on the usual ...

Although they kept Latin names and images, the links between Roman and Greek gods gradually came together ... Venus was believed to be the mother of Aeneas, who according to legend had founded ...