AeneasSicily.
    After leaving Libyan Carthage, the Trojans returned to Sicily, where Aeneas’s father, Anchises, had died the year before. In his honor they held funeral games both on land and on the water. While the men were competing, the women of the group, tired after years of wandering, set fire to the ships. Aeneas prayed to Jupiter for rain, which extinguished the flames and enabled the Trojans to continue their voyage to Italy.
    The footrace during the funeral games between the Trojans Nisus and Euryalus has been a popular subject in art.