Flight of Aeneas Flashcards
What’s the source made of, who made it and when was it made?
It is an attic black figure vase painting by Nikosthenes, c. 530 BC.
What does the source show?
Flight of Aeneas with his lame father Anchises and his son Ascanius from Troy.
Who is Aeneas?
Aeneas was a Trojan hero, son of Trojan prince Anchises and Greek goddess Aphrodite.
He played a prominent part in defending his city against the Greeks during the Trojan War, being second only to Hector in ability.
Who is Anchises?
He was a member of the royal family of Troy in Greek. He is the uncle of priest Laocoön. He was the mortal lover of Aphrodite.
Who is Ascanius?
The son of Anchises and Creusa, daughter of Priam. After the war and as the city burned, Aeneas escaped to Latium in Italy with his father and Ascanius. Creusa died during the escape.
What is the source based of?
Book 2 of The Aeneid.
What happened?
Venus takes the mist of Aeneas’ sight so he can see the various gods at work destroying the city. He runs home, finds his father and asserts him that they all will head to the hills. Anchises refuses despite his family trying to convince him.
Aeneas gives up goes out and fight, whilst Anchises prays for a sign from the gods - from which a shooting star suddenly flashes. He goes to Aeneas and takes Ascanius.
Aeneas takes his father on his shoulder and Ascanius by the hand. He tells some servants about the meeting point and head off, Creusa following behind.
Creusa gets lost along the way due to Aeneas ducking down some alleyways. Once he realizes, he alone goes back to search for her but to no avail, until he meets her ghost. She tells him to go to where the Tibet river flows (i.e. in Italy) and there he will get a new kingdom and a new wife.
He comes back to the cypress tree, the checkpoint, and with some refugees they voyage to their new kingdom.
What did they still manage to bring?
Penates, the household gods, of Troy.
