Aeneas Fleeing from Troy (1598) by Federico Barocci (Source – Yale University)

Aeneas was an accomplished Trojan warrior second in ability only to his cousin, the great Hector. After the fall of Troy at the hands of the Greeks, he took a small band of survivors on a journey to find a somewhere else to live; a land where they would build a new Troy, a nation that would go on to dominate the known world.

At the outset the Trojans had a fearsome enemy, the goddess Juno, who had been told that t...
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