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 ...

She suggests that maybe Dido and Carthage would be happier with Trojan warrior Aeneas ( Evan White) by her side. Aeneas comes to court and at first, is rebuffed by Dido but eventually, she warms ...

Mark Morris’ danced opera “Dido and Aeneas” is a tour de force of late 20th century artistic storytelling, a partial retelling of Virgil’s 2,000-year-old epic poem “Aeneid” using Henry ...

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 ...

Proms Aberdeen: ‘I never laid eyes on Aeneas …’ Women’s Stories from the Ancient World ...