![]() ![]() Accepting the sign, Anchises agreed to flee. However, Jupiter sent a star over Aeneas’s son, Ascanius, and then another to show the path to Mount Ida behind the city. Unable to bear leaving his father, Aeneas resolved to return to the battle and die in combat himself. His father, Anchises, initially refused to leave and resolved to die in the ruins of Troy. Achilles’ son Pyrrhus dragged the aged Priam through pools of his own son’s blood and skewered him on the palace altar in front of his wife and daughters.įleeing The City Aeneas Flees from Troy, attributed to Lucca Batoni Pompeo, 1754-57, via the Galleria Sabauda, Turinįinding himself unexpectedly alone as the battle continued away, Aeneas suddenly feared for his own wife, father, and son. The battle swept into the palace of Troy, where Aeneas witnessed the death of King Priam. He rushed from his home and joined in the fighting, watching many other brave Trojans fall. As the dream faded, Aeneas woke to the sounds of approaching battle. ![]() Hector warned him of the coming chaos and pleaded with him to escape with as many as he could save and to found great Troy again. Aeneas Escapes From Troy Battle Within The Walls La Mort de Priam by Jules Joseph Lefebvre, 1861, in the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Parisĭeep in sleep just before the Greeks fell upon the city, an image of bloodied and beaten Hector, the prince of Troy, visited Aeneas in a dream. ![]()
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