Aeneads
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In Roman mythology, the Aeneads were the friends, family and companions of Aeneas, with whom they fled from Troy after the Trojan War. Virgil also used the word as a synonym of "Trojan", a person from Troy.
The Aeneads included:
Similarly, Aeneades (Ancient Greek: Αινείαδες) was a patronymic from Aeneas, and applied as a surname to those who were believed to have been descended from him, such as Ascanius, Augustus, and the Romans in general.[1][2][3][4]
Aenides was another patronymic from Aeneas, which is applied by Valerius Flaccus to the inhabitants of Cyzicus,[5] whose town was believed to have been founded by Cyzicus, the son of Aeneas and Aenete.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ Virgil. Aeneid, ix. 653.
- ^ Ovid. Ex Pont. i. 35
- ^ Ovid. Metamorphoses, xv. 682, 695.
- ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), “Aeneades”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, pp. 30
- ^ Valerius Flaccus, iii. 4.
- ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), “Aenides”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, pp. 34
[edit] Sources
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).
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