For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to ...

Romans also believed that many of their gods had played an active part in the foundation of Rome. Venus was believed to be the mother of Aeneas, who according to legend had founded Rome ...

According to Roman legend, the people of Rome were heirs of Troy, which the Greeks may have destroyed in 1184 BCE. The hero Aeneas was a member of the Trojan royal family, a second cousin of the ...

There was also precedent in Roman history – Aeneas and Romulus, who had helped found Rome, were already worshipped as gods. Aside from their many gods, Romans were deeply superstitious ...

Legend has it that the son of Aeneas founded the city of Alba Longa ... them as if they were her own offspring, which is why Rome keeps the Capitoline she-wolf as its emblem.

It’s a tale of Aeneas’s journey to the underworld; our plucky hero must cross the Styx, journey from Troy to Rome and then beat the Latins, notoriously the most difficult section in Strictly ...

Aeneas was the son of Venus, a goddess: therefore Rome, and her empire, are sanctioned by the heavens. That divine sanctioning of empire is what many leaders in the decades and centuries that ...