The Adventure of Aeneas

“Aeneid”

Presented by:
John Lexter B. Villegas
 Aeneas
• Son of Venus (Apphrodite) and Anchises.

• He is considered by some person as the real

founder of Rome because Romulus and
Remus (the founders of Rome) were born in
the city his son have founded, the Alba Longa.

• He led the Trojans to their adventure to

their promised land-the Italy or formerly
known as Hesperia.
 Venus
• Mother of Aeneas and the wife of Anchises.

• She is the goddess of beauty in roman

mythology and a counterpart of the Greek
Goddess Aphrodite.
Anchises
• Father of Aeneas who was with him as
they escape from Troy but he died in
Sicily after their escape from
Polyphemus and hundreds of Cyclopes
 The Fall of Troy (1184 B.C)
• It is when the Greeks captured the city of
Troy.
Aeneas as they are looking for a way to
escape from Troy with the help of his
mother Venus.
 The Adventure of Aeneas
Part 1: From Troy to Italy
 The Island of Crete
• The land where Zeus (Jupiter) was born and
grew old.
• It is where the ancestors of Aeneas lived.
 Harpies
• One of the enemies that the Trojans encounter
while they are sailing.
 Island of Epirus
• They landed in this island after being
encountered with the Harpies.
 Andromache
• Widow of Prince Hector and wife of
Helenus
 Neoptolemus
• Also known as Pyrrus.
• Son of Achilles and also a former husband of
Andromache.
 Helenus
• Trojan prophet and Andromache’s husband.
He helped Aeneas and his comrades by
giving directions on where they should go.
 The Southern Island of Sicily

• It is where Polyphemus and the cyclopes

reigned.
• This is where Aeneas father, Anchises,
died and buried.
 King Aeolus
• Viceroy of the winds and the one caused the
storm suffered by the Trojans.
 Juno

•Wife of Jupiter (Zeus) who hates the

Trojans especially Aeneas.
 Carthage

•Island City in Northern Africa.

• The most favored city of Juno ruled by
Queen Dido.
 Dido
•The queen of Carthage who madly
fell in love with Aeneas
 Part Two
THE JOURNEY TO THE
UNDERWORLD
 Sibyl of Cumae

•A woman of profound wisdom. She

helped Aeneas in going down the
Underworld to meet
his father Anchises.
 Hecate

•Goddess of night
 Two rivers of the
underworld told in the
Aeneid
Cocytus
Acheron
 Charon
•Ferryman of the underworld. The one
who brings the ghost to their destination.
 Minos

• Judge of the dead and son of Europa

Fields of Mourning
 Rhadamanthus

•Son of Europa ruler of the land in the

Underworld
where wicked souls punished eternally
Elysian Fields
 Lethe
• Known as the river of forgetfulness where those
who are going to drink at this river will forget
all the painful memories from the past.
Part 3
The war in Italy
 King Latinus
• King of Latium. Father of Lavinia and
grandson of Saturn (Cronus)
 Faunus
• Father of Latinus who told him that Lavinia
should marry the stranger who will come to
their kingdom.
 Lavinia
• Daughter of Latinus and last wife of Aeneas
whom he married after the war in Italy.
 Alecto
• One of the Furies who was commanded by
Juno to make chaos in Latium.
 Queen Amata
• Wife of King Latinus and the one who opposed the
marriage of Aeneas and Lavinia.
 Turnus
• King of Rutulians and Lavinia’s top suitor.

• He declared war against Aneas and the

Trojans because he knew that Lavinia will be
marrying Aeneas rather than himself.
 Mezentius

• Cruel king of the Etruscans and ally

of Turnus.
 Camilla
• Female warrior who is great in using javelin
and two-edged axe. Another ally of Turnus.
 Ascanius
• Son of Aeneas. The one who shot the deer of the
Latins because of the influence of Alecto.
 Evander
• King of small tribe where Aeneas seek for
help.
 Pallas
• Son of Evander. The one who helped the Trojans
at the war in Italy against the army of Turnus.
 Nisus and Euryalus
• Two of the great Trojan warriors who killed a
camp of Rutulians stealthily but they were
both killed after fighting a group of cavalries.
 Etruscans
• The army who rebelled in their King
Mezentius because of its cruelty. Allies of
Aeneas and they fought against Turnus and
his allies.
 The Victory of the Trojans in the War in
Italy
• The adventure of Aeneas ended upon of his
victory against Turnus. They won the land of
Italy and he married Lavinia and become the
ruler of Italy which he named Lavinium. After
300 years from his death, Remus and Romulus
were born and founded the legendary city of
Rome where destined by the Fates to be the ruler
of the whole world.