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Title: Aeneid, Book I;
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Virgil Henderson, John, 1845-1932
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Publisher: Toronto, Copp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ur \hdstd. ; (3) B. i, 651 : Pergdmd \cum pete\ret in\cdncess\6squ(e) hymen\ aeos. (4) B. i, 668 : Litdrd \ idcte\tur, ddi\is Iu\nonis in\iquae. THE TROJAN WAB. Like Homers Iliad and Odyssey, the Aeneid is based uponevents supposed to have happened in that legendary andromantic episode known as the Trojan War. These events,as depicted in literature, are almost entirely poetic and not inthe strict sense historical. The legend is that once there wasa wealthy and powerful city named Ilium or Troja on thecoast of Asia Minor. In a contest between the three goddesses,Venus, Juno and Minerva, for the Apple of Discord, Venuswas awarded the prize by the young Trojan prince Paris (orAlexander), son of King Priam. Paris, who at the time wasbeing brought up as a shepherd boy on Mt. Ida and had beenchosen judge for the contest, was bribed by Venus with thepromise that she would give him the most beautiful woman inthe world for wife. This woman proved to be Helen, wife ofMenelaus, king of Sparta. i
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Hel§n of Troy. 8IH FRfOK LIIQMTON STORY OF THE AENEID. XIX Paris, on a visit to the court of Menelaus during the absenceof the latter, enticed Helen to elope with him to Troy.Menelaus, to recover his wife and punish the Trojans for har-boring her, assembled a large army of Greeks, led by variouspetty Grecian kings and commanded by Menelaus brotherAgamemnon, king of Argos and Mycenae. This army laid siegeto Troy. After the siege had lasted ten years, by the stratagemof a huge wooden horse filled with soldiery the city was cap-tured and burnt, and all but a remnant of the inhabitants putto the sword. This remnant scattered to different localitiesaround the coast of the Mediterranean. According to theRoman legend, Aeneas, led by the Fates, conducted a party ofTrojans to the west coast of Italy and there founded thecolony from which afterwards grew the Eternal City,Rome. STORY OF THE AENEID. Aeneas was the son of Anchises and Venus, and thus con- Ancestors oj nected with the royal family

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