Aeneas flees Troy
Flight of Aeneas from Troy, by Girolamo Genga (between 1507 and 1510). Aeneas and his Father Fleeing Troy, by Simon Vouet (c.
Why did Aeneas leave Troy?
Some have said that Aeneas betrayed the city of Troy, and that because of this service the Achaeans allowed him and his family to safely leave the city. Aeneas, they say, had been excluded from his prerrogatives by King Priam 1 and his son Paris, who could be thought to succeed his father after the death of Hector 1.
When did he leave Troy Aeneas?
Now thinking of survival instead of suicide, Aeneas takes his father on his shoulders. He gives his father the images of the household gods to carry. Then he takes Ascanius by the hand.
