Aeneas
Αἰνείας · Roman 아이네아스 (Aeneas)
The royal who carried his father on his back out of burning Troy.
A son of Aphrodite (Venus), he escaped the night the city fell, leading his old father and his son.
Virgil's Aeneid tells how he wandered the Mediterranean, reached Italy, and became the ancestor of the Romans.
Rome, in effect, grafted its roots onto the losing side of the Greek story — a calculated way to absorb Greek culture without being subordinate to Greece.
SourcesVirgil, Aeneid