The Aeneid, an epic tale of immigration Another classic piece of literature comes to the stage in Montreal. This time, it's The Aeneid, the Latin epic poem written by Virgil more than 2000 years ago.

For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to someone else. ... Aeneas flees burning Troy, 1598.

At the end of Book II of the poem, Aeneas is making his way out of the burning city of Troy — now overrun with enraged Greeks seeking their revenge at the end of the nasty 10-year Trojan War.

Painter Henry Gibbs' 1654 work, Aeneas And His Family Fleeing Burning Troy, ... depicts scenes from Virgil's epic Latin poem the Aeneid, and is believed to be a commentary on the English Civil War.

The artwork, Aeneas and His Family Fleeing Burning Troy (1654) by Henry Gibbs, was seized from Samuel Hartveld’s home in Antwerp as an act of "racial persecution," according to the UK’s ...

Art experts claim “Aeneas And His Family Fleeing Burning Troy” was artist Henry Gibbs’ commentary on the English Civil War.