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Excerpt from Monograph by Charles M. Ffoulke on the Dido and Aeneas Series: Consisting of Eight Italian Tapestries With Original Borders Aeneas, the hero of Virgil's great epic, the Aeneid, was, according to mythology, the son of the Trojan Prince Anchises and the goddess Venus, and was born on Mount Ida. He took no part in the defense of Troy at the beginning, but peacefully tended his flocks on Mount Ida, until attacked by Achilles and put to flight. On being rescued by the gods, his martial spirit was aroused by Apollo and thereafter he rivalled Hector in deeds of valor against the Greeks. He was revered by the Trojans in the same manner that Achilles was by the Greeks, and although Hector was the head, yet Aeneas was the soul of the Trojan resistance. When he fought with Diomedes, who broke his hip with a huge stone, Venus hastened to his assist ance, but was also wounded by the Greek, whereupon Apollo carried Aeneas from the field of battle to the island of Delphos, and there Latona and Diana put him in fighting trim again. In the combat between Hector and Ajax, when the former was struck to the ground by the latter, Aeneas rushed to the assistance of Hector, which brought him into a hand-to - hand fight with Achilles, who had has tened to the support of A j ax. Although Aeneas fought valiantly he would have been killed by Achilles had not Neptune protected him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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