Ascanius
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Ascanius was a legendary king of Alba Longa and the son of the Trojan hero Aeneas and of Creusa, daughter of Priam. He is a significant figure in Roman mythology because of his family connections: as
The boy Ascanius weeps and Venus hovers nearby as the physician Iapyx treats the wound of Aeneas (wall painting from Pompeii, 1st century AD).
Aeneas carrying Anchises, with his wife leading the way and Ascanius between them (red-figure amphora from a Greek workshop in Etruria, ca. 470 BC)
Ascanius shooting Sylvia's stag, in the 5th-century Roman Vergil manuscript
Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia (1682), Claude Lorrain's last painting
Aeneid
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The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. Written by the Roman po
Manuscript circa 1470, Cristoforo Majorana
Aeneas Flees Burning Troy, by Federico Barocci (1598). Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy
Paul Cézanne, Aeneas Meeting Dido at Carthage, c. 1875, Princeton University Art Museum
Hawara Papyrus 24, with a line of the Aeneid (repeated 7 times, probably a writing exercise) that translates: "It is not the hated face of Spartan Helen..."). 1st century AD, from Hawara, Egypt; displayed at the British Museum, London