The Aeneid
The Judgement of Paris Greek Goddesses and their Latin names: Hera (Juno) (wife of Zeus-Jove or Jupiter in Latin) Athena (Minerva) and Afrodite (Venus) Paris was a Trojan prince. The Trojan War took place around 1185-1175 BC Homer wrote The Illiad and the Odysseus in the 8th c. BC. Illium was another name for Troy. Virgil was a Latin poet who lived 70-19 BC. He wrote the Aeneid during the Augustan era. Book 1 of the Aeneid starts when the Trojans arrive in Cartage: 1] Arms and the man I sing, who first from the coasts of Troy, exiled by fate, came to Italy and Lavine shores; much buffeted on sea and land by violence from above, through cruel Juno’s unforgiving wrath, and much enduring in war also, till he should build a city and bring his gods to Latium; whence came the Latin race, the lords of Alba, and the lofty walls of Rome. The Ruins of Troy [8] Tell me, O Muse, the cause; wherein thwarted in will or wherefore angered, did the Queen of heaven drive a man, of goodness s...