Aphrodite lay with Anchises on Mount Ida, conceiving Aeneas. According to the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, Zeus caused the goddess to fall in love with the mortal as punishment for making other gods desire mortals.
Aphrodite repeatedly protected her son Aeneas during the Trojan War, shielding him from Diomedes on the battlefield and petitioning the gods on his behalf.
Aeneas fought alongside Hector as Troy's second-greatest warrior during the Trojan War. Both were members of the Trojan royal house through their common ancestor Tros.
Apollo protected Aeneas multiple times during the Trojan War. In Iliad Book 5, Apollo carried the wounded Aeneas to his temple where Leto and Artemis healed him.
In Iliad Book 20, Aeneas faced Achilles in combat and would have been killed, but Poseidon intervened to rescue him, declaring it was fated for Aeneas to survive and his line to rule the Trojans.
In Iliad Book 5, Diomedes wounded Aeneas with a spear and then struck Aphrodite herself when she tried to rescue her son. Apollo intervened to carry Aeneas to safety in his temple.
The Greek Aineias, Trojan prince and son of Aphrodite in the Iliad, was adopted wholesale into Roman tradition as Aeneas, ancestor of Romulus and founder of Rome's Trojan lineage.
In the Aeneid, Aeneas encounters the mutilated shade of Deiphobus in the underworld. Deiphobus bitterly recounts how Helen betrayed him to Menelaus on the night Troy fell.
In Virgil's Aeneid, the Harpies attacked Aeneas and his men on the Strophades islands, fouling their food. The Harpy Celaeno delivered a prophecy that the Trojans would not found their city until hunger forced them to eat their tables.
In Virgil's Aeneid, Helenus hosted Aeneas and his Trojans in Epirus, where he had built a miniature Troy. As a seer, Helenus delivered crucial prophecies guiding Aeneas's voyage to Italy, warning him of Scylla, Charybdis, and the Sibyl.
In Virgil's Aeneid, Laocoön's death by the serpents is witnessed by Aeneas, who recounts it as the event that convinced the Trojans to bring the Horse inside the walls.
In Virgil's Aeneid Book 6, Aeneas observes souls gathered at the River Lethe, where his father Anchises explains they drink its waters to forget their former lives before being reborn into new bodies.
In Virgil's Aeneid, Notus was among the winds released by Aeolus at Juno's command to devastate Aeneas's fleet as it sailed from Sicily toward Italy.
In some Greek traditions, Aeneas carried the Palladium out of burning Troy, preserving the sacred image of Athena for his future people.
Poseidon snatched Aeneas from the battlefield before Achilles could strike the killing blow, declaring that Aeneas was fated to survive Troy's fall and that his line would rule the Trojans after Priam's house fell from Zeus's favor.
Aeneas belonged to a junior branch of Troy's royal house through the line of Dardanus. He served under Priam during the Trojan War as leader of the Dardanian contingent.
Aeneas was Troy's second-greatest warrior after Hector and fought throughout the Trojan War. Poseidon prophesied during the war that Aeneas would survive and his descendants would rule the Trojans.
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