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Definition of Aeneas
1. Noun. A mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War; hero of the Aeneid.
Definition of Aeneas
1. Proper noun. (Greek mythology) A Trojan hero and the legendary ancestor of Romans. ¹
2. Proper noun. (Ancient Greek male given name). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aeneas
Literary usage of Aeneas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by William Young Sellar (1897)
"... the treacherous wounding of Aeneas, the withdrawal by supernatural agency of
Turnus from the battle, the death of Pallas and the effect which that event ..."
2. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck (1897)
"Henceforth Aeneas and Hector appear as the great, bulwarks of the Trojans against
the Greeks. Ou more than one occasion Aeneas was Aeneas. ..."
3. The Classical World by Classical Association of the Atlantic States (1916)
"Throughout the poem we are always conscious that Aeneas is living and laboring
for 'the sweet Ascanius'4, as Vergil calls him, or 'the young heir of ..."
4. History: Fiction of Science? by Anatoly Fomenko (2005)
"The “ancient” Romulus and Remus are the grandchildren of Aeneas the Trojan and
the founders of Rome in Latinia. This event apparently reflects the ..."
5. A Smaller Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology, and Geography. by William Smith (1889)
"Aeneas was the son of An- chises and Aphrodite (Venus), and was born on тон ni
... Henceforth Aeneas and Hector appear as the great bulwarks of the Trojans ..."