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| Attic Greece Black-Figure Neck Amphora Aeneas carrying Anchises out of Troy with Aphrodite lamenting ca. 510 BC painted terracotta Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Anonymous Italian Sculptor Aeneas carrying Anchises out of Troy ca. 1525-50 marble Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Luca Cambiaso Aeneas fleeing Troy with his father Anchises and his son ca. 1555-60 drawing Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Paolo Farinati Aeneas with Anchises fleeing Troy ca. 1590 fresco Sala Verde, Villa Nichesola-Conforti Ponton di Sant' Ambrogio di Valpolicella |
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| Federico Barocci Aeneas fleeing Troy with Anchises 1598 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Leonello Spada Aeneas carrying Anchises out of Troy ca. 1615 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
from The Aeneid
As he spoke we could hear, ever more loudly, the noise
Of the burning fires; the flood of flames was coming
Nearer and nearer. "My father, let me take you
Upon my shoulders and carry you with me.
The burden will be easy. Whatever happens,
You and I will experience it together,
Peril or safety, whichever it will be.
Little Iülus will come along beside me.
My wife will follow behind us. And you, my servants,
Listen to what I say: just as you leave
The limits of the city there is a mound,
And the vestiges of a deserted temple of Ceres,
And a cypress tree that has been preserved alive
For many years by the piety of our fathers.
We will all meet there, though perhaps by different ways
And, Father, you must carry in your arms
The holy images of our household gods;
I, coming so late from the fighting and the carnage
Cannot presume to touch them until I have washed
Myself in running water." Thus I spoke.
I take up the tawny pelt of a lion and
Cover my neck and broad shoulders with it,
And bowing down, I accept the weight of my father;
Iülus puts his hand in mine and goes
Along beside me, trying to match my steps
As best he can, trying his best to keep up.
My wife follows behind us, a little way back.
So we all set out together, making our way
Among the shadows, and I, who only just
A little while ago had faced, undaunted,
Showers of arrows and swarms of enemy Greeks,
Am frightened by every slightest change in the air
And startled by every slightest sound I hear,
Fearful for whom I walk with and whom I carry.
– Virgil (19 BC), translated by David Ferry (2017)
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Aeneas carrying Anchises out of burning Troy 1618-19 marble Galleria Borghese, Rome photograph by Fratelli Alinari (ca. 1880-95) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| François de Nomé The Burning of Troy, with the Flight of Aeneas and Anchises before 1620 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Simon Vouet Aeneas and Anchises fleeing Troy ca. 1635 oil on canvas San Diego Museum of Art |
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| Henry Gibbs Aeneas and his Family fleeing burning Troy 1654 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Ludolph Busing after Georges Lallemand Aeneas saving his Father from Troy ca. 1630-40 chiaroscuro woodcut National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Anton Maria Zanetti after Parmigianino Aeneas and Anchises fleeing the burning of Troy 1723 chiaroscuro woodcut Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Pompeo Batoni Aeneas fleeing Troy with Anchises 1753 oil on canvas Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
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| Carle Vanloo Aeneas rescuing his father Anchises from the Fire at Troy before 1765 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |