Brut or Brutus was a hero of Troy, the great-grandson of Aeneas. On his banishment from Italy he managed to reach Albion (Britain) whose gigantic warriors he overcame in battle and so took possession of the island. Research Brut
Dion Cassius or Dio Cassius was a Greek historian and administrator. He was born in 155 at Nicaea and died in 230. After accompanying his father to Cilicia, of which he held the administration, he came to Borne about 180, and obtained. the rank of a Roman senator. On the accession of Pertinax Dion Cassius was appointed prastor, and in the reign of Caracalla he was one of the senators whom it had become customary to select to accompany the emperor in his expeditions, of which he complains bitterly. In 219 he was raised to the consulship, and about 224 became proconsul of Africa. In 229 he was again appointed consul; but feeling his life precarious under Alexander Severus, he obtained permission to retire to his native town of Nicaea. The period of his death is unknown. The most important of his writings, though only a small part is extant, is a History of Rome, written in Greek and divided into eighty books, from the arrival of AEneas in Italy and the foundation of Alba and Rome to 229 AD. Research Dion Cassius
Aeneas was a Trojan hero. According to Homer, he was, next to Hector, the bravest of the warriors of Troy. When that town was taken and set on fire, Aeneas, according to the narrative of Virgil, with his father, son, and wife Creusa, fled, but the latter was lost in the confusion of the flight. Having collected a fleet he sailed for Italy, but after numerous adventures he was driven by a tempest on the coast of Africa, where Queen Dido of Carthage received him kindly, and would have married him. Jupiter, however, sent Mercury to Aeneas, and commanded him to sail for Italy. Whilst the deserted Dido ended her life on the funeral pile Aeneas set sail with his companions, and after further adventures by land and sea reached the country of King Latinus, in Italy. The king's daughter Lavinia was destined by an oracle to a stranger, this stranger being Aeneas, but was promised by her mother to Turnus, king of the Rutuli. This occasioned a war, after the termination of which, Turnus having fallen by his hand, Aeneas married Lavinia. His son by Lavinia, Aeneas Sylvius, was the ancestor of the kings of Alba Longa, and of Romulus and Remus, the founders of the city of Rome. Research Aeneas
In Greek mythology, Lethe was a river of the underworld whose waters, when drunk, brought forgetfulness of the past. The spirits of the dead drank from its waters to forget the sorrows of their earthly life before entering Elysium. When the Trojan prince Aeneas visited the world of the dead, he found a great number of souls wandering on the banks of the stream. His father, Anchises, with whom he was joyously reunited, told him that before these spirits could live again in the world above, they must drink of the river of oblivion to forget the happiness they had experienced in Elysium. Research Lethe
In Roman mythology, Palinurus was the pilot of AEneas on his voyage from Troy to Italy. He was said to have fallen into the sea off the coast of Lucania. Research Palinurus
In Roman mythology, Rhea Sylvia was the daughter of Numitor, a descendant of AEneas, and by Mars the mother of Romulus and Remus. Being a vestalvirgin she was punished for having broken her vows by being cast into the river Anio with her children; but they were all saved. Research Rhea Sylvia
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