Aeneas

So today was our second day in a row out of Rome.  Today was a mix of Rome's mythical origins....think Aeneas, and real history.  We were southeast of the city, on the coast like yesterday but in the opposite direction.  The subject matter ...

... ad nostrum visum. Haud illo segnior ibamus, ascenscimus sanctum montem. Autem non ducerunt ad auream bracchiam, quam Aeneas tulit, ut regna invia vivis intraret. Secuti Aeneam, fiebamus Cuma pietos filios filiasque pietas Vergilii. Hic scribebatur ...

... the information was presented audio-visually, with eerie music playing in the background and odd (and sometimes cheesy) videos explaining Aeneas' journey form Troy to Lavinium, the cult of Minerva, and the 13 altars, complete with a holographic priest ...

... the Trojan War, fled to Rome, and become the progenitor of the Roman emperors. Incredible to think of such as Agammenon, Achilles, Aeneas, Alexander et al treading on the same stones as we were. Given the lateness of the season, there were not huge ...

... Park. Basically, this area was home to Aeneas Gunn, who with his wife Jeannie, arrived to live and work on Elsey Station in 1902. Aeneas died soon after of malaria, and Jeannie stayed on to run the cattle station for a while with her Chinese cook and some ...

... , the subject of Jeannie Gunn's enormously popular autobiographical novel We of the Never-Never.We of the Never Never by Mrs Aeneas Gunn In 1902 newly-married Jeannie Gunn (Mrs Aeneas Gunn) left the security and comfort of her Melbourne home to travel ...

... ,000Km away to be precise. So what better way to experience the opera house than to see an opera there. I saw Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) and Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (Monteverdi) on one night and 'Verbal: Two Strange Acts with No Words'. ...

... place in Rome and contained the sacred flame and Palladium statue of Pallas Athena (which were said to have been brought by Aeneas from Troy). The flame was tended by the famous Vestal Virgins. The flame was kept by the Vestals even after Christianity ...

... destroyed- refers to their final conflict ending in total annihilation of Carthage and its subsequent blackening of name by Rome (very little evidence of widespread child sacrifice). Dido, who meets Aeneas, is supposedly a Queen of Carthage.    ...

... a warm spot on the dashboard.) Carrie writes: I am now reading We of the Never-Never, written in 1908 by "Mrs Aeneas (Jeannie) Gunn", wife of the manager of Elsey Station (which became Mataranka and Elsey National Park).  Mrs Gunn came to ...

... came the Piccolomini family. They fled Siena after some political torubles, and as this was one of their posessions, went into exile. Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini was born here in 1405, and some years later when he was elevated to Pope Pius 11, either for ...

... . No going back now. Legend has it that Butrinti was founded by Priam's son Helenus after he fled Troy, and that Aeneas stopped here on his way to Italy, as is mentioned in Virgil's Aeneid. Regardless of its mythology, archaeological finds prover there ...

... ”. Mataranka is known as the "Capital of the Never Never”.  Jeannie Gunn moved from Melbourne in 1902 as the wife of Aeneas Gunn who was the manager of the Elsey cattle station. It is her story of her life there “amidst the beauty and ...

... goddesses (like Venus, Hermes, Jove) and heroes (Hercules). Right in the centre was a beautiful fountain (1690) with scenes of Aeneas, Hercules &Antaeus, rapes of Helena & Prosperina. Then down the Orangery to the Papgena fountain. We sat for a ...

... The building dates back to 8th century B.C. and was originally built to guard the Palladium and other sacred objects brought to Italy by Aeneas.  Six virgins were selected to live here and if one of them let the flame burn out, she was buried ...

... the road. We had a look around the cemetery where there's about 10 graves in total the main one being Jeannie's (author) husband Aeneas Gunn. Another 300 metres down the road to the location of the original homestead. There is only a stone plague to say ...

... monsters Scylla and Charybdis would destroy mariners trying to sail the straights. Odysseus lost some sailors here according to Homer. Aeneas avoided the straight altogether. This is probably the origin of our expression "to be between a rock and a hard ...

... Philippi (when he defeated Caesar's assassins) in 42 BC but not built until 2 BC.  Augustus' Forum is full of images of Aeneas and Romulus (the other founders of Rome) to remind everyone that he was "re-founding Rome). After a lunch break we went to ...