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In classical legend, a Trojan prince who
became the ancestral hero of the Romans.
According to Homer, he was the son of
Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite. During
the Trojan War he owed his life several times
to the intervention of the gods. Virgil's
epic poem the Aeneid is based on this legend.