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en-wikipedia-org-2183		Aeneas - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	5275	790	78	In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (/ɪˈniːəs/,[1] Latin: [ae̯ˈneːaːs̠]; from Greek: Αἰνείας, Aineíās) was a Trojan hero, the son of the prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite (Venus). One influential source was the account of Rome's founding in Cato the Elder's Origines.[13] The Aeneas legend was well known in Virgil's day and appeared in various historical works, including the Roman Antiquities of the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus (relying on Marcus Terentius Varro), Ab Urbe Condita by Livy (probably dependent on Quintus Fabius Pictor, fl. According to the mythology used by Virgil in the Aeneid, Romulus and Remus were both descendants of Aeneas through their mother Rhea Silvia, making Aeneas the progenitor of the Roman people.[23] Some early sources call him their father or grandfather,[24] but once the dates of the fall of Troy (1184 BCE) and the founding of Rome (753 BCE) became accepted, authors added generations between them. "Dido and Aeneas" from Virgil's Aeneid	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2183.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2183.txt