Aeneas thumb|Eighteenth century painting by Pompeo Batoni depicting Aeneas fleeing from Troy. Aeneas carries his father. thumb|Aeneas's route in Virgil's Aeneid. The epic poem was written in the early first century BC.
Aeneas thumb|Eighteenth century painting by Pompeo Batoni depicting Aeneas fleeing from Troy Aeneas carries his father thumb|Aeneas's route in Virgil's Aeneid The epic poem was written in the early first century BC