Anna Perenna’s Family Tree

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Family

• Belus(parent),Dido(sibling),Pygmalion(sibling)

  Belus, king of Tyre, fathered Dido, Anna Perenna, and Pygmalion. After Belus's death, Pygmalion murdered Dido's husband Sychaeus, driving Dido and Anna Perenna to flee Tyre and found Carthage.

Associated with

• Aeneas

  After Dido's death Anna fled across the sea to Latium, where Aeneas welcomed her at Lavinium, until Dido's shade warned her that Lavinia meant her harm and Anna plunged into the River Numicius, vanishing into its waters to become the nymph Anna Perenna.

• Mars

  Mars begged Anna Perenna to act as go-between in his pursuit of Minerva, but the old goddess disguised herself as the virgin warrior, went veiled to the tryst, and left the god of war a laughingstock when he lifted the bridal veil.