Greek mythology · hero · piety, survival, the future
Trojan son of Aphrodite, twice saved from death by the gods because his destiny lay elsewhere: to survive the fall of Troy. Roman tradition made him the ancestor of Rome, the one Trojan whose story is mostly told in Latin.
After ten years of siege, Odysseus conceives the wooden horse and Troy drags its own doom through the gates. The city burns: Priam is cut down at his altar, Cassandra's warnings are vindicated too late, Menelaus reclaims Helen, and Aeneas escapes the flames carrying his father on his back.