Aeneas
Aeneas was Trojan warrior 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.[1]
Mythology[edit | edit source]
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.[2]
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.[3] Although Juno, in reality one of the Isu, would have actually been lurking within the Grand Temple at the time as a digital consciousness.[4]
Legacy[edit | edit source]
In 2012, the Assassin Clay Kaczmarek collected details on Aeneas' mythical feats while Abstergo Industries held him captive at their Animus Project laboratory in Rome. He then hid the information within the Animus 1.28 in Glyph puzzles for his successor, Desmond Miles, to find.[5] Sometime in early September,[6] Desmond solved the puzzle set titled "Instruments of Power", in which Aeneas was excluded from the list of individuals who had wielded Staves of Eden.[5]
Appearances[edit | edit source]
- Assassin's Creed II (glyphs only)
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (mentioned only)
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Virgil. Aeneid. 19 BCE.
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – Kythera: Pilgrimage Site
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations
- ↑ Assassin's Creed III – Subject header: "Apology"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Assassin's Creed II – Glyph #5: "Instruments of Power"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Initiates – The Desmond Files