Aeneas
Aineias
Trojan prince, son of Anchises (cousin of Priam through the Dardanid line) and Aphrodite, one of the two surviving royal Trojans after the fall of the city (Homer *Iliad* 2.819–820 for the genealogy; 5.311–318 Aphrodite rescues him from Diomedes; 20.302–308 Poseidon rescues him from Achilles with the prophecy that Aeneas and his descendants 'shall rule the Trojans hereafter' — the deep mythic root behind the whole Aeneid). On the last night of Troy he carried his lame father Anchises out of the burning city on his back, took his young son Ascanius by the hand, and lost his first wife Creusa in the chaos (Virgil *Aeneid* 2.634–804). The Aeneid then traces seven years of Mediterranean wandering from Troy via Buthrotum and Drepanum (where Anchises died, *Aen.* 3.707–715) to Carthage (where Dido's tragic love-and-suicide, *Aen.* 4) and through the Cumaean descent to Anchises's prophecy of the Roman future (*Aen.* 6.752–886) to the final Italian landing. At Latium he married Lavinia daughter of King Latinus, killed the Rutulian Turnus in the single combat that closes the Aeneid (12.887–952), and founded the city of Lavinium named for his wife (Livy 1.1–3; Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1.45–66). Dying, he was taken by the river-god Numicus for cleansing and deified as Jupiter Indiges (Ovid *Met.* 14.581–608; Livy 1.2.6).
Origin
Son of Anchises (Dardanid prince) and Aphrodite, born on Mount Ida in the Troad (Hom. *Il.* 2.819–820; *Hymn to Aphrodite* 196–199 gives the name's etymology from αἰνός, 'dreadful' — Aphrodite's dreadful grief at bearing a mortal child).
Alternate Tradition
Aphrodite is the canonical Greek mother of Aeneas (Venus in the Roman tradition); kept in alternateOrigin since aphrodite.children is not otherwise modelled in this file
Source: Homer *Iliad* 2.819–820; Homeric *Hymn to Aphrodite* 196–199
