Aeneas

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Aeneas was a warrior from Troy who, according to Roman legend, led the Trojan survivors of the Trojan War on a journey to Italy, where he became a progenitor of the Roman civilization.

Mythology

Greek mythology

According to the Greeks, Aeneas was a son of the goddess Aphrodite. Forced to flee Troy, Aineias reached Kythera Island. There, he raised a shrine to his mother. Later on, it was said to be the oldest of such shrines in the Greek world.

Roman mythology

The founding myth was propagated by the poet Virgil through his epic poem Aeneid, written during a time of sociopolitical uncertainty for the young Roman Empire. For the Romans, Aeneas served as a national hero whose tale inspired in them vigor and hope for the future of their nation. The narrative attributes the ordeals that plagued him throughout his voyage to the bitter machinations of the goddess Juno although Juno, in reality one of the Isu, would have actually been lurking within the Grand Temple at the time as a digital consciousness.

Influence

In 2012, Aeneas was one of many historical people included in the Glyph puzzles the late Assassin Clay Kaczmarek had left behind in the Animus as messages for his successor Desmond Miles to decipher. Sometime between 8 September and 16 September, Desmond solved this puzzle, which was part of a set titled "Instruments of Power" where Aeneas was excluded from the list of historical individuals revealed by Clay to have wielded a Sword of Eden.

Trivia

• Aeneas is not actually identified in the Glyph puzzle that was his only appearance in the Assassin's Creed series until a mention in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. His depiction is taken directly from the famous painting of Aeneas in Aeneas' Flight from Troy (1598) by Federico Barroci.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed II – (glyphs only)
• Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (mentioned only)