Aeneas’s Escape from Troy (Greek Notices; Vergil Labeled)

Catalogue ID: 04-trojan-cycle/044-aeneas-escape-greek-notices-vergil

Cycle: Trojan — Sack aftermath / western foundation legend

Version line: Homeric / cyclic / Apollodorean Greek notices + **Roman** Vergilian expansion labeled

Sources: Homer, *Iliad* 20.300–308 (Poseidon’s prophecy of Aeneas’s line); Proclus, *Iliou Persis* (Aeneas withdraws to Ida); Apollodorus, *Epitome* 5.21; Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1.46–48 (Greek antiquarian); Vergil, *Aeneid* 2 (**Roman transmission**)

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Characters

Aeneas — son of Anchises and Aphrodite; spared; withdraws to Ida; ancestor of later rulers
Agamemnon — warns Aeneas in Vergil (**Roman**)
Anchises — father; carried from Troy in Vergilian (**Roman**) telling; present in Greek escape notices
Ascanius — son; heir in Roman line (**Roman** emphasis)
Eros — divine mother; protects Aeneas
Glauce — wife; lost in the sack (**Vergilian**)
People of Crisa — prophesies Aeneas’s surviving line (*Iliad* 20)
Priam’s house — doomed foil to Dardanus’s line

Places

Shore — sack escaped
Troy — cyclic refuge of Aeneas’s people

Themes

Narrative

Greek epic already marked Aeneas for survival. In the *Iliad* Poseidon saves him from Achilles and declares that he and his children’s children will rule Trojans—Priam’s line must fall, but Dardanus’s will not perish. Proclus’s *Iliou Persis* has Aeneas and his followers withdraw from the sack toward Mount Ida. Apollodorus notes the Greeks letting him go (or his escape) for his piety—some strands say he was allowed to choose goods and chose his father, earning free passage. Dionysius and other Greek antiquarians trace him from Ida through the Troad and islands toward Italy, overlapping but not identical with Roman foundation myth. Vergil’s *Aeneid* 2 (**Roman**) elaborates the night: Aeneas fights, is warned by Hector’s ghost and by Venus, carries Anchises on his shoulders, leads Ascanius, loses Creusa in the burning streets, and gathers refugees for exile. That pathos and the full Italian destiny are Roman literary transmission of the older Greek fact that Aeneas outlived Troy. This catalogue entry records the Greek core (divine spared survivor; Ida withdrawal; future rule) and flags Vergil as the Roman narrative overlay—not as a substitute primary Greek source.