. 1. 48, that he betrayed Troy and was thereforeleft as a ruler by the Greeks, which looks likean attempt to explain the Homeric traditionthat he was to reign there in later times. Theoldest source for his migration westwards is inthe Iliu Persis of Stesichorus ( 630-550).The Tabula Iliaca shows Aeneas embarking atSigeum, leading Ascanius and carrying Anchiseswith the images of the gods; Misenus thetrumpeter is behind. Dionysius and Virgilagree mainly in the story of his visit to Thrace :by these and other writers he is brought t
. 1. 48, that he betrayed Troy and was thereforeleft as a ruler by the Greeks, which looks likean attempt to explain the Homeric traditionthat he was to reign there in later times. Theoldest source for his migration westwards is inthe Iliu Persis of Stesichorus ( 630-550).The Tabula Iliaca shows Aeneas embarking atSigeum, leading Ascanius and carrying Anchiseswith the images of the gods; Misenus thetrumpeter is behind. Dionysius and Virgilagree mainly in the story of his visit to Thrace :by these and other writers he is brought toAenea on the Thermaic gulf (Liv. xl. 4), toSamothrace and the Cabiri, to Delos, Crete,Cythera (Paus. viii. 12, 8; iii. 22, 11), Zacyn-thus, Leucas, Actium, Ambracia (Virgil omitsLeucas and Ambracia), Epirus, Sicily (cf. ii. 4, 7). Dionysius, however, says nothingof Africa or Dido ; and, according to Macrob. v. 2, 4, Virgil is here following Naevius. As tothe landing in Italy, Virgil agrees with Diony-sius, except in the consultation of the Sibyl,. AENEAS which seems to come from Naevius. The ijourney to Etruria is not in Dionysius orNaevius, but appears in Lycophron of Alex-andria ( 285-247). Pausanias (x. 17) takeshim to Sardinia. It should be noted that theTrojan settlement inLatium is unknownto Stesichorus andfirst appears in Ce-phalon (4th ), who makes Ro- jmus, a son of Aeneas, the founder of Rome ;(Dionys. i. 72). The ideath or disappear- 1ance of Aeneas takesplace in the fourthyear after the deathCoin of Aenea, vnth the legend 0f Turnus and Lati- mis, during a war be-tween his subjects and the Rutulians, aided byMezentius: in one story he is taken up to thegods ; in another he is drowned in the river Nu-micius. (See Liv. i. 2.) He becomes accordingto Livy the Jupiter Indiges ; according to Dio-nysius debs x^bvios.—A coin of Aenea [Aenea],which belongs to the middle of the sixth cen-tury , represents Aeneas flying from Troy,carrying his fathe
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