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1 The story of Aeneas XII century bC

2 Troy Once upon a time, a prosperous town called...

3 was completely destroyed by...
the Greek army under the command of...

4 ...King Agamemnon

5 Only a few Trojan heroes survived the tragedy. Among them...
...Aeneas, his old father Anchises and his son Ascanius, aka Iulus

6 After losing Aeneas’ father in Sicily, they arrived on African shores where they were warmly welcomed by Dido, princess of... ...Carthage

7 Dido and Aeneas become... lovers... but...

8 he abandoned her and... she cursed him, wished for eternal war between both peoples and eventually committed suicide

9 Finally, after a long journey through the Mediterranean,
Aeneas and his followers reached the Italian shores where...

10 centuries later they built an empire that ruled all the known world

11 rome caput mundi

12 And some Romans claimed to be descendents of Aeneas’ son...
This is their story... and our History

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