The Adventures of Aeneas

1. The Adventures of Aeneas Samantha King Stephanie Phillips Hannah Flannery

2. Aeneas • Son of Venus • One of the most famous heroes to fight in the Trojan War • He was second to Hector • Founder of Rome

3. The Journey Begins • Decided to sail away with other Trojans to find a new home • Trojans had to escape

4. There First Landing • Met Hectors wife Andromache • She was married to Helenus and she helped rule the land • Aeneas was welcome • Once they left she gave them advice for them not to land on the nearest coast of Italy because it was full of Greeks

5. Cyclops • The Trojans landed on the southern part of Italy • There were hundreds of Cyclops there • Had to escape

6. Storm • Juno was the cause of it • Juno had a hatred for Aeneas • She tried to drown Aeneas • She went to Aeolus • Neptune calmed the sea

7. Dido • Carthage was founded by her • She was beautiful and a widow • Juno had a plan • Venus stopped Juno’s plan

8. Venus • She went to Olympus • Told her about Aeneas decedents • Went to Cupid • Disguised herself

9. Dido • She approached Aeneas • For time she was happy • She had made her people treat Aeneas as if he was their ruler also

10. Mercury • Mercury visited Aeneas and told him to depart and seek the kingdom

11. Aeneas Leaving… • When he did Dido killed herself • Palinerus died; drowned near the end of their perils by sea • Prophet Helenus told Aeneas as soon as he reached the Italian land seek the cave of the sibyl of Cumae • There well be a woman who can see the future and tell him what to do

12. The Underworld • He must find a golden bough to be admitted t Hades • She would take him to the underworld so he could learn from his father Anchises who died before the great storm

13. The Boat • Found two doves of Venus and followed them • Came upon lake Avernos which leads to the underworld • Charon told some of the men they could not be on his boat and some could. The ones who couldn’t were doomed to wonder aimlessly for a hundred years with never a place to rest

14. Aeneas • Charon told them he did not ferry the living but at sight of the golden bough he took them across • They did what Psyche did and gave Cerberus a piece of cake and passed by him easily • Meets his father; father shows him the river of forgiveness • They got to the field of mourning

15. Aeneas and Dido • He saw Dido and ask if he was the cause of her death she never answered him • Got to a road divided one led to Rhadamanthus who punished people and the other led to Elysia fields where his father was

16. Juno • She made people appose to the Trojans settling there • If it wasn’t for her matters would of went well

17. Latinus • Fathers spirit warned him not to any many in the country • Convinced that Aeneas was his son-in-law • Juno stepped in

18. Ascanius • He was hunting and wounded the Latin farmers stag • Then they wanted to kill Ascanius and everyone defending him

19. Trojans • The rest of their adventures were on the battlefield

20. In The End… • Aeneas and Lavinia founded the Roman race