Aeneas and Anchises on a Small Amphora by the Diosphos Painter in the Metropolitan Museum, July 2007

Aeneas rescuing his father Anchises during the Fall of Troy. Obverse
of a terracotta neck-amphora (storage vessel); reverse, woman and warrior.
Attic, black-figure, ca. 500 BC. Attributed to the Diosphos Painter. Fletcher
Fund, 1956 (6.171.26) (Location:The Judy and Michael H. Steinhardt
Gallery)

Aeneas carrying his aged father Anchises away from Troy at the end of the
Trojan War was a much illustrated incident from the Iliou Persis, a lost epic
poem that described the victory of the Greeks over the Trojans.The adventures
of the Trojan hero on his way to Italy were later celebrated in the
Aeneid, the epic poem of the founding of Rome composed in Latin by
Vergil during the reign of Augustus.

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