The Aeneid: personaggi, cronologia e luoghi

Juno sends a storm against the Trojans, but Neptune calms the sea and seven ships reach shelter.

Dido welcomes the survivors to Carthage, while Venus uses Cupid to make her love Aeneas.

Aeneas recounts how Sinon’s deception brings the wooden horse into Troy and Greek soldiers attack at night.

Aeneas escapes with his father and son, loses Creusa, and leads the gathered exiles away.

After failed settlements in Thracia and Crete, the household gods identify Italy as the Trojans’ destination.

Helenus advises the travelers, who rescue an abandoned Greek before Anchises dies at Drepanum.

Jupiter sends Mercury to order Aeneas away from Carthage, and Aeneas secretly prepares his fleet.

After the Trojans depart, Dido curses Aeneas and his descendants, then kills herself with his sword.

Aeneas reaches Sicily and honors Anchises with funeral games, including rowing, running, boxing, and archery.

Iris urges Trojan women to burn the ships, but Jupiter’s rain limits the loss to four.

The Sibyl requires a golden branch and burial for a dead companion before Aeneas can visit his father.

Aeneas enters the underworld with the Sibyl and encounters unburied companions, Dido, and fallen warriors.

The Trojans reach the Tiber, recognize their destination, and receive Latinus’s offer of land and marriage to Lavinia.

Juno sends Alecto to inflame Amata, Turnus, and the countryside, turning the proposed alliance into bloodshed.

Following Tiber’s guidance, Aeneas seeks Evander’s help and gains Arcadian cavalry under Pallas.

Venus brings Aeneas armor from Vulcan, including a shield depicting achievements of descendants he cannot identify.

Turnus attacks the Trojan camp while Aeneas is absent, and Cybele transforms the threatened ships into sea nymphs.

Nisus and Euryalus leave to summon Aeneas, but enemy cavalry discover them and both die.

Aeneas returns with Tuscan allies and raises his shield to renew the besieged Trojans’ courage.

Pallas rallies his fleeing men before Turnus challenges him, kills him, and offers his body back to the Arcadians.

Aeneas sends Pallas’s body home to Evander and grants the Latin envoys a twelve-day truce.

Latinus proposes peace, but Turnus defends continued resistance before news of the Trojan advance alarms the city.

Turnus demands a duel, but Juturna provokes resistance to the treaty and renewed fighting leaves Aeneas wounded.

Venus heals Aeneas, who returns seeking Turnus while Juturna steers her brother’s chariot around the battlefield.