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This Roman cornelian gemstone depicting the goddess Venus and Anchises, the father of Aeneas, is our

Produced c. 25 BCE, this superb engraving is set in a gold and enamel 18th century frame.

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2021-05-28

Mercury, from Mercury Exhorting Aeneas to Leave Carthage, 1757

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2021-05-08

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, The Apotheosis of Aeneas, c. 1765 https://t.co/lScS2ECQ4X

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2021-05-03

Trying to shoe-horn in a link to and my Covid vaccination (as only I would do) leaves me with a fresco of a medical procedure—Aeneas having an arrowhead removed from his leg—and enemas discovered in the House of the Surgeon. Yikes.
Image 2: https://t.co/WuoRyJamhM

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2021-05-02

There was another famous Sibyl I bumped into once,the Sibyl of Cumae, near Naples, as consulted by Aeneas, referenced by Ovid and Petronius. Painted by Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri)(1581-1641), and Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel (sometimes I wonder how much M liked women😏)

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2021-04-07

Inquisitor Project: Aeneas.

" Tell me the crimes I committed and I'll tell you the price of victory, that's what we always were and you two won't change that."

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2021-04-03

Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas (1757)

François Boucher

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2021-03-04

Venus was the goddess of love, beauty and desire. She was the mother of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy & fled to Italy & Julius Caesar claimed her as his ancestor. She has lived on into the modern world as a symbol of love & beauty

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2021-03-03

In Virgil's Aeneid, the river god Tiberinus appears to Aeneas in a dream to tell him his son is destined to found the great city of Alba. He will know place when he sees this omen: a spotless white sow with thirty white piglets.

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2021-03-01

Aeneas Αἰνείας

Real meaning: who is praised

Origin: obscure Ancient Greek word, likely from Luwian, the language of Troy

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2021-02-15

INF 2
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says
"Tu dici che di Silvio il parente, corruttibile ancora, ad immortale secolo ando', e fu sensibilmente. "
litterally
"You tell of Silvio's parent (Aeneas) that, still corruptible (alive), to the immortal century (afterlife) went, and was sensibly (in his body)"

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2021-02-14

A last for the morning, with this awesome panel of Dido from the House of Meleager, Pompeii (VI.9.2). Dido is seated on her throne, with an attendant personification of Africa, as Aeneas' ship departs.

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8898)

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2021-02-12

Vulcan Presenting Arms to Venus for Aeneas, 1756

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2021-02-04

We note with sadness the death of Aeneas Ranald Euan MacDonell of Glengarry, 23rd Chief of MacDonald of Glengarry.

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2021-02-01

François Boucher
Vulcan Presenting Arms to Venus for Aeneas

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2021-01-24

Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673), The Dream of Aeneas, oil on canvas, 1660-65

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2021-01-18

- 17 January

"Aeneas, quamquam et sociis dare tempus humandis
praecipitant curae turbataque funere mens est,
vota deum primo victor solvebat Eoo.
ingentem quercum decisis undique ramis
constituit tumulo fulgentiaque induit arma,...

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2021-01-17

Hey, before it's too late: post the drawing you're happiest with out of the whole year!
For me, it was probably this Patreon commission of Aeneas. I drew him carrying his dad, Anchises, to safety from Troy as it was being sacked by the Greeks.

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2021-01-01