CHAPTER II.
THE WANDERINGS OF AENEAS.
You remember in the Greek history the burning of Troy, and how Priam and all his family were cut off.

Among the Trojans there was a prince called AEneas, whose father was Anchises, a cousin of Priam, and his mother was said to be the goddess Venus.

When he saw that the city was lost, he rushed back to his house, and took his old father Anchises on his back, giving him his Penates, or little images of household gods, to take care of, and led by the hand his little son Iulus, or Ascanius, while his wife Creusa followed close behind, and all the Trojans who could get their arms together joined him, so that they escaped in a body to Mount Ida; but just as they were outside the city he missed poor Creusa, and though he rushed back and searched for her everywhere, he never could find her.

For the sake of his care for his gods, and for his old father, he is always known as the pious AEneas.
In the forests of Mount Ida he built ships enough to set forth with all his followers in quest of the new home which his mother, the goddess Venus, gave him hopes of.

He had adventures rather like those of Ulysses as he sailed about the Mediterranean.