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Aeneas (Greek: Αἰνέας, romanized: Aineas) is a character in the New Testament. According to Acts 9:32-33, he lived in Lydda, and had been a cripple for eight years. When Peter said to him, "Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and roll up your mat," he was healed and got up.
Aeneas flees burning Troy, Federico Barocci, 1598 (Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy). In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (/ ɪ ˈ n iː ə s / ih-NEE-əs, [1] Latin: [äe̯ˈneːäːs̠]; from Ancient Greek: Αἰνείας, romanized: Aineíās) was a Trojan hero, the son of the Trojan prince Anchises and the Greek goddess Aphrodite (equivalent to the Roman Venus). [2]
In Roman mythology, the Aeneads (Ancient Greek: Αἰνειάδαι) were the friends, family and companions of Aeneas, with whom they fled from Troy after the Trojan War. Aenides was another patronymic from Aeneas, which is applied by Gaius Valerius Flaccus to the inhabitants of Cyzicus , [ 1 ] whose town was believed to have been founded by ...
The kings of Alba Longa, or Alban kings (Latin: reges Albani), were a series of legendary kings of Latium, who ruled from the ancient city of Alba Longa.In the mythic tradition of ancient Rome, they fill the 400-year gap between the settlement of Aeneas in Italy and the founding of the city of Rome by Romulus. [1]
Homer does not mention Aeneas having a wife, [1] while according to Pausanias, the poet Lesches and the author of the Cypria had her as one Eurydice. [2] It is only in the 1st century BC, in the works of Virgil, Livy, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus that Creusa is first given as Aeneas's wife; in these accounts she is the mother of Ascanius by Aeneas, and Dionysius also specifies Priam as her ...
The Septuaginta contained in the Complutensian Polyglot Bible was to follow publication later. The Complutensian Bible had been printed between 1514 and 1517 in Alcalá under the supervision of Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, but it was only published in 1520. For the New Testament, Manutius' Aldine Bible used Erasmus' Novum ...
According to the Roman historian Livy, Jupiter Indiges is the name given to the deified hero Aeneas. In some versions of his story, he is raised up to become a god after his death by Numicus, a local deity of the river of the same name, at the request of Aeneas' mother Venus. [1] The title Pater Indiges or simply Indiges is also used. [2]
However, Pallas' story does not stop there – at the end of Book XII, as Turnus is finally defeated and begs for his life, Aeneas almost spares him, but catches sight of Pallas' baldric, Turnus' fateful spoils. [8] This drives Aeneas into another murderous rage, and the epic ends as he kills Turnus in revenge for Pallas' death.