Written by the English baroque composer Henry Purcell, the opera tells the tragic tale of Queen Dido of Carthage and the Trojan hero, Aeneas. At the heart of this story, Aeneas grapples with the ...

Loosely based on Virgil’s epic poem “The Aeneid,” the opera tells the love story between Dido, queen of Carthage, and Aeneas, hero of Troy and Rome. Unsurprisingly, hateful gods, sorceresses ...

The hero's journey is a motif that has run through human history. The actions of ancient heroes such as Gilgamesh, Ulysses and Aeneas, to name just 3, have spanned the millennia and stimulated Western ...

The poem follows the story of the Trojan hero Aeneas, who escapes the fall of Troy and is aided by his mother, the goddess Venus. Aeneas goes on to lead his fellow survivors on a perilous journey ...

The 1654 artwork by English painter Henry Gibbs depicts the mythological story of Aeneas, a Trojan hero, escaping with his family after the Greeks invade Troy using the trickery of the Trojan Horse.