Eneide is a seven-episode 1971–1972 Italian television drama, adapted by Franco Rossi from Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid. It stars Giulio Brogi as Aeneas and Olga Karlatos as Dido, and also stars Alessandro Haber, Andrea Giordana and Marilù Tolo. RAI originally broadcast the hour-long episodes from 19 December 1971 to 30 January 1972. A shorter theatrical version was released in 1974 as Le avventure di Enea.
Image: Anna Maria Gherardi Eneide
Image: Andrea Giordana Eneide
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 poet Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, the Aeneid comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas' wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.
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 Virgil's Aeneid (repeated 7 times; probably a writing exercise). Book 2, line 601 ( "It is not the hated face of Spartan Helen..."). Recto. Latin language. 1st century AD. From Hawara, Egypt. On display at the British Museum in London