In Homer’s Illiad Poseidon prophesizes that Aenas and his descendants will rule the Trojans.
Other writers portray Aeneas as the founder of several Greek centers, such as Delos and Crete.
Aeneas has also been described as the founder of Lavinium and the head of the Latin League.
The poet Vergil in his Aeneid furthers Homer’s emphasis on Aeneas’ piety by representing him, in keeping with fashionable Roman ideals, as a symbol of filial, societal and spiritual devotion–i.e. devotion to parents, to the glory of Rome and its deities.
Henry Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas draws from the Fourth Book of the Aeneid, dramatizing the destroyed marriage of Queen Dido of Carthage and prince Aeneas.
A sorceress had convinced Aeneas that Jove expected him to leave Carthage. The stricken Dido’s sorrowful When I am laid in earth reminds us of the price we might have to pay for listening to dark sorcerers instead of trusting in God and our own good judgment.
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