# Aeneas — The City of God character guide

> Aeneas in The City of God by Augustine of Hippo.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0002-part-i-book-i

## Who they are

Trojan hero and legendary founder of Rome, central figure in Virgil's Aeneid.

## In the story

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ii)

Mentioned as witnessing Priam's death at the shrine.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iii)

Pious Trojan hero who carries his conquered gods from Troy, as described in Virgil.

### [Book III: External Calamities and the Failure of the Pagan Gods](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-book-iii)

Trojan hero and ancestor of Romans, whose mother Venus is implicated in adultery.

### [Whether the gods, whom the Greeks and Romans worshipped in common, were justified in permitting the destruction of Ilium](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ii)

Trojan hero whose posterity founded Rome, rescued by Neptune in Homer's account.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iii)

Trojan hero, son of Venus and Anchises, whose mother's adultery is contrasted with Paris's.

### [Chapter V: The Inconsistency of the Gods' Anger at Adultery](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-v)

Trojan hero, son of Venus and Anchises, mentioned in the context of divine adultery.

### [Of the statue of Apollo at Cumae, whose tears are supposed to have portended disaster to the Greeks, whom the god was unable to succour.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xi)

Aeneas brought Trojan gods to Italy, but they could not preserve the Trojan or Lavinian kingdoms.

### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xiii)

Referenced as the ancestor of the Romans whose children could not find wives justly.

### [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xiv)

Ancestor of the Romans and Albans; his grief over an enemy is cited.

### [What we are to believe that Varro thought concerning the gods of the nations](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ii)

Mentioned as rescuing the Penates from the burning of Troy, an act compared to Varro's preservation of pagan rites.

### [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvi)

Mentioned in the context of the household gods that moved from place to place during his flight from Troy.

### [Of the power delegated to demons for the trial and glorification of the saints, who conquer not by propitiating the spirits of the air, but by abiding in God.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxi)

Mentioned in Virgil's account as being advised to propitiate Juno, illustrating the pagan approach of appeasing hostile powers.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-v)

Mentioned as the character in Virgil's poem who questions the soul's longing for embodiment.

### [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xix)

Arrives in Italy after the fall of Troy, becomes king of Latins, and is later deified.

### [Of the kings of Latium, the first and twelfth of whom, Aeneas and Aventinus, were made gods](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxi)

First king of Latium, deified after his death.

## Links

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