The Aeneid

A Trojan refugee carries the survivors of a burning city west across the Mediterranean, is nearly held in Carthage by love, and fights his way into Latium to found the line that will become Rome; the poem's destination is the real hill Rome grew on, though its founding is legend.

Aeneas

Troy (Hisarlik), the city that burns

Book 2

The poem's great flashback is the night Troy falls to the wooden horse, and Aeneas carries his father on his back out of the flames with his son at his side. Everything that follows is the search for a second home to replace this lost one. Its likely site is the ruin-mound of Hisarlik above the Dardanelles.

Book 2

disputed The fall of Troy is the fixed backstory Aeneas flees; Troy is most widely identified with the mound of Hisarlik in northwest Turkey, though the identification is debated. Marked outsideSetting: it lies far east of Italy, off the map's frame.

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