Venus advises Aeneas to flee Troy at once, since his fate is elsewhere. Aeneas then proceeds to the house of his father, Anchises, but Anchises refuses to leave. But after omens appear—first a harmless tongue of flame on Ascanius's forehead, then a bright falling star in the sky—Anchises is persuaded to flee the city.

WHO encourages Aeneas flee Troy?

857-1082: After his initial hesitation, Aeneas' father, ANCHISES, is persuaded by omens to leave Troy. Anchises, Aeneas, his son, Iulus (Ascanius) and his wife, CREUSA, flee.

Does Aeneas survive the fall of Troy?

The more common version, however, made Aeneas the leader of the Trojan survivors after Troy was taken by the Greeks. In any case, Aeneas survived the war, and his figure was thus available to compilers of Roman myth.