Aeneas, Shipwreck.
    Only seven of Aeneas’s ships survived the storm called up by Juno and landed on the Libyan coast. Venus, Aeneas’s mother, implored Jupiter to explain what her son and his followers— now shipwrecked in a strange land far off course from their destination—had done to deserve such a cruel fate. Jupiter reassured her that not only would Aeneas reach Italy and found the Roman race, but his descendants would rule an eternal empire.
    Aeneas and his closest companion, Achates, set out to explore the Libyan countryside. There they encountered Venus, in the guise of a huntress, who told them the story of the Carthaginian queen Dido (known also as Elissa). Venus then revealed her identity and told Aeneas to go to Dido, assuring him that the queen would grant the Trojans safe haven in her country or safe passage to Italy.
     Most fine art treatments of this episode depict Aeneas and Achates meeting Venus.

AeneasShipwreck listings are arranged under the following headings:
AeneasShipwreck General List)
Infancy and Education)
AeneasShipwreck at Scyros)
Wrath of AeneasShipwreck)
Return to Battle)
Death of AeneasShipwreck)
Afterlife)

See also Chryseis; Hector, Death; Iphigenia; Memnon; Odysseus, in Hades; Patroclus; Penthesilea; Polyxena; Trojan War, General List.