{"id":1159,"date":"2022-04-08T17:15:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ariste.aeneasroute.org\/ariste\/?page_id=1159"},"modified":"2022-06-16T16:18:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T14:18:48","slug":"aeneas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ariste.aeneasroute.org\/en\/aeneas\/","title":{"rendered":"Aeneas"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1159\" class=\"elementor elementor-1159\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0f4aad4 elementor-section-height-full elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"0f4aad4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;,&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9a5c600\" data-id=\"9a5c600\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b38a2bf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b38a2bf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.7.8 - 02-10-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<h2><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">AENEAS<\/span><\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>The leader of the Trojans<\/i><\/span><\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d3e5c3c elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d3e5c3c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-wider\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d6df846\" data-id=\"d6df846\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-e098026 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e098026\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-9285098\" data-id=\"9285098\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55b54ee elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"55b54ee\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><strong>AENEAS<\/strong><\/h3><p>I am <strong>Aeneas, the leader of the Trojans<\/strong>. I am the <strong>son of Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite<\/strong>. I am one of the few survivors of the long war that ravaged <strong>the city of Troy <\/strong>for ten years. I was one of its staunchest defenders and I fought as an ally of the Trojans, at <strong>the head of the Dardanians<\/strong>, a people who lived near the western coast of present-day Turkey.<\/p><p><strong>A long exile awaits me<\/strong>. I am looking for a place in Italy to call home, a homeland that I will not have time to inhabit but that I will leave to my son and his glorious descendants, who will be born from the fusion of East and West, Trojans and Latins.<\/p><p><strong>Homer <\/strong>already talks about me <strong>in the Iliad<\/strong>, but <strong>it is in Virgil&#8217;s work that my story is fully told<\/strong>, transforming the tale of a foreign refugee into the epic of the birth of Rome and its empire.<\/p><p>I am dear to the gods for my <strong><em>pietas<\/em><\/strong>, a Latin word that is difficult to translate, which can be interpreted as &#8216;<strong>sense of duty<\/strong>&#8216;, i.e. to commit oneself firmly and solidly to one&#8217;s purpose, <strong>showing respect and loyalty to all the bonds that bind man to his family, community, religion<\/strong>: justice, loyalty, clemency, valour in battle, endurance in fatigue, the ability to control one&#8217;s passions and feelings.<\/p><p>I am a man who has suffered, and continues to suffer a great deal, but who cannot say it and cannot show it because <strong>the fate of my son and his lineage depends on me<\/strong>. I am not burdened by the obligation to submit to the destiny that the gods have chosen for me, but I have accepted consciously and with extreme conviction the need to sacrifice my present to make possible <strong>a future that I will not see, but of whose greatness I am certain<\/strong>.<\/p><p>On several occasions my character has been misunderstood. I have been accused of being insensitive, almost rude, for my cold and detached attitude towards <strong>Dido, the queen of Carthage <\/strong>whom I loved dearly, when I had to leave her lands to continue my journey to Italy and told her that I had never promised her that I would stay or that we would become husband and wife. The truth is that I could not stay because the fates forbade it and because I had the <strong>responsibility to shape a new homeland <\/strong>for my son and his descendants.<\/p><p>That is why I became the hero of the ancient Roman people, the paradigmatic model of a culture that foresaw the constant subordination of the individual to the needs of the community. But my being a <strong>conquered hero<\/strong>, a defeated exile who had to flee from the destruction of his city, and who was able to resist and rebuild without ever losing hope, has also made me a &#8216;<strong>human hero<\/strong>&#8216;, with whom men and women of every age and every world continue to identify.<\/p><p><em>\u00a9 Image from Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AENEAS The leader of the Trojans AENEAS I am Aeneas, the leader of the Trojans. I am the son of Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite. 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