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Troy and Environs

    Troy was situated in a strategically valuable piece of land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. It was the site of the most famous war in Greek and Roman mythology, the Trojan War. It is the place from which Aeneas starts his journey. Aeneas and a group of Trojans leave the city when the Greeks, enemies of the Trojans, finally breech the walls and sack the city after years of siege warfare. Also known as Ilium and Pergamum.

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    Aeneid 2.21-22

    Est in cōnspectū Tenedos, nōtissima fāmā

    īnsula, dīves opum Priamī dum rēgna manēbant,

    Aeneid 2.203-205

    Ecce autem geminī ā Tenedō tranquilla per alta

    (horrēscō referēns) immēnsīs orbibus anguēs

    incumbunt pelagō pariterque ad lītora tendunt;

    Aeneid 2.254-256

    Et iam Argīva phalānx īnstrūctīs nāvibus ībat

    ā Tenedō tacitae per amīca silentia lūnae

    lītora nōta petēns, flammās cum rēgia puppis

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    Latium

      Latium as described in Aeneid Book 1, and significant peoples around the region.

       

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      Aeneid 1.1-7

      Arma virumque canō, Trōiae quī prīmus ab ōrīs

      Ītaliam fātō profugus Lāvīniaque vēnit

      lītora, multum ille et terrīs iactātus et altō

      vī superum, saevae memorem Iūnōnis ob īram,

      multa quoque et bellō passus, dum conderet urbem5

      īnferretque deōs Latiō; genus unde Latīnum

      Albānīque patrēs atque altae moenia Rōmae.

      Aeneid 1.258-259

      fāta tibī; cernēs urbem et prōmissa Lavīnī

      moenia,

      Aeneid 1.269-271

      trīgintā magnōs volvendīs mēnsibus orbīs

      imperiō explēbit, rēgnumque ab sēde Lavīnī

      trānsferet, et Longam multā vī mūniet Albam.

      Lavinium:

      Alba Longa:

      Roma:

      Latium:

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      The Journey of Dido

        This map shows Tyre, Dido's homeland, the city from which she was banished.  It also shows Carthage, the city she built for her people, and Barce, the city of King Iarbas, who gave her the land for her city. 

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        Aeneid 1.338-341

        Pūnica rēgna vidēs, Tyriōs et Agēnoris urbem;

        sed fīnēs Libycī, genus intractābile bellō.

        Imperium Dīdō Tyriā regit urbe profecta,

        germānum fugiēns. 

        Aeneid 1.365-368

        Dēvēnēre locōs ubi nunc ingentia cernēs

        moenia surgentemque novae Karthāginis arcem,

        mercātīque solum, factī dē nōmine Byrsam,

        taurīnō quantum possent circumdare tergō.

        Aeneid 4.35-44

        Estō: aegram nūllī quondam flexēre marītī,

        nōn Libyae, nōn ante Tyrō; dēspectus Iärbās

        ductōrēsque aliī, quōs Āfrica terra triumphīs

        dīves alit: placitōne etiam pugnābis amōrī?

        Nec venit in mentem quōrum cōnsēderis arvīs?

        Hinc Gaetūlae urbēs, genus īnsuperābile bellō,

        et Numidae īnfrēnī cingunt et inhospita Syrtis;

        hinc dēserta sitī regiō lātēque furentēs

        Barcaeī. Quid bella Tyrō surgentia dīcam

        germānīque minās?

        Syrtis: Syrtis Minor (modern Gulf of Gabès) or Syrtis Maior (modern Gulf of Benghazi) or both (Brill)

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        Cumae and Environs

          Map of Cumae and environs. Cumae is where Aeneas goes to visit his father in the underworld in Aeneid Book 6. The entrance and exit from the underworld are both located around Lake Avernus (Avernus Lacus). Caieta is mentioned by Vergil in Aeneid 6.900-901 as a port named for Aeneas's nurse. 

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          Aeneid 6.1-5

          Sīc fātur lacrimāns, classīque immittit habēnās

          et tandem Euboïcīs Cūmārum adlābitur ōrīs.

          Obvertunt pelagō prōrās; tum dente tenācī

          ancora fundābat nāvīs et lītora curvae

          praetexunt puppēs. 

          Aeneid 6.201-204

          Inde ubi vēnēre ad faucēs grave olentis Avernī,

          tollunt sē celerēs liquidumque per āëra lāpsae

          sēdibus optātīs geminā super arbore sīdunt,

          discolor unde aurī per rāmōs aura refulsit.

          Aeneid  6.232-235

          At pius Aenēās ingentī mōle sepulcrum

          impōnit suaque arma virō rēmumque tubamque

          monte sub āëriō, quī nunc Mīsēnus ab illō

          dīcitur aeternumque tenet per saecula nōmen.

          Aeneid 6.900-901

          Tum sē ad Cāiētae rēctō fert līmite portum.

          Ancora dē prōrā iacitur; stant lītore puppēs.

          Aeneid 7.1-4

          Tu quoque litoribus nostris, Aeneia nutrix,

          aeternam moriens famam, Caieta, dedisti;

          et nunc seruat honos sedem tuus, ossaque nomen

          Hesperia in magna, si qua est ea gloria, signat.


          Caieta: a town in Latium. It was situated on a promontory opposite to the city of Formiae, and forms the northern extremity of the extensive bay anciently called the Sinus Caietanus, and still known as the Golfo di Gaeta. (Smith)

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          The Journey of Antenor

            Map of the journey of Antenor as described by Venus in Vergil, Aeneid 1.242-247. Ancient coastline and elevation data supplied by the Ancient World Mapping Center.

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            Aeneid 1.242-247

            Antēnor potuit mediīs ēlāpsus Achīvīs

            Īllyricōs penetrāre sinūs atque intima tūtus

            rēgna Liburnōrum et fontem superāre Timāvī,

            unde per ōra novem vāstō cum murmure montis

            it mare prōruptum et pelagō premit arva sonantī.

            Hīc tamen ille urbem Patavī sēdēsque locāvit.

            Illyricos sinus: “Illyrian gulfs,” meaning the Adriatic gulf along the shores of Illyricum. Illyrian attacks on shipping brought Roman intervention in the First and Second Illyrian Wars (229/8, 219 BC).

            regna Liburnorum: "the realm of the Liburni." A wild and piratical race (Livy 10.2), the Liburni used privateers called lembi or naves Liburnicae with one very large lateen sail, which, adopted by the Romans in their struggle with Carthage (Eutropius 2.22) and in the Second Macedonian War (Livy 42.48), supplanted gradually the high-bulwarked galleys which had formerly been in use. (Caesar, Civil War 3.5; Horace, Epodes 1.1.) (Smith)

            fontem Timavi: the small river Timavus (modern Timavo) flows into the Adriatic near Trieste.

            urbem Patavi: meaning Padua, some twenty miles west of Venice. According to a tradition recorded by Virgil, and universally received in antiquity, it was founded by Antenor, who escaped thither after the fall of Troy; and Livy, himself a native of the city, confirms this tradition, though he does not mention the name of Patavium, but describes the whole nation of the Veneti as having migrated to this part of Italy under the guidance of Antenor. it was at an early period an opulent and flourishing city: Strabo even tells us that it could send into the field an army of 120,000 men, but this is evidently an exaggeration, and probably refers to the whole nation of the Veneti, of which it was the capital. (Strab. v. p.213.) Whatever was the origin of the Veneti, there seems no doubt they were, a people far more advanced in civilisation than the neighbouring Gauls, with whom they were on terms of almost continual hostility. (Smith)

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