The brothers were purportedly the descendants of the Trojans via the hero Aeneas, the son of Aphrodite. The twins were also the sons of Mars, the god of war. This extraordinary lineage helped ...

It’s a tale of Aeneas’s journey to the underworld; our plucky hero must cross the Styx, journey from Troy to Rome and then beat the Latins, notoriously the most difficult section in Strictly ...

and populated by gods masquerading as mortals (Aeneas is son of Grecian love goddess Aphrodite while Dido, the powerful Queen of Carthage, is compared to Roman goddess Diana) – the narrative ...