Aineades (mythology)
As Aineades ( ancient Greek Αἰνεάδης , Latinized Aeneades ) are in Greek and Roman mythology, the descendants of the Trojan hero and ancestor of the Romans Aeneas called.
As a salutation for Aeneas son Ascanius , the name can be found in Virgil's Aeneid , where the name is also used to denote the Trojans traveling with Aeneas . Cassius Dio quotes in his historical work from the Sibylline books , in which the gens Iulia is traced back to Aeneas and named accordingly. The Roman Emperor Nero appears here as the last descendant . Several writers used the name as a term for the Romans in general.
The drama Decius by Lucius Accius , which deals with Roman history , had the name Aeneadae as a secondary title.
literature
- Otto Rossbach : Aineades . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, column 1009.
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Aineades 1–4 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 191 ( digitized version ).