The Trojan hero Aeneas escaped his burning homeland after it was taken by the Greeks in the Trojan War and sailed west, landing eventually in Italy. Aeneas was honored by Romans as their great ancestor. This illustration, dating to around 1900, shows Aeneas fleeing burning Troy, with his father Anchises on his shoulder and his son Ascanius,whom he is holding by the hand. Behind them is Aeneas' wife Creusa, who does not, in the end, manage to escape the burning city.

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