Reading notes

• The Aeneid §1.1 Troy

  The city of Laomedon, ancestral home of the Romans through Aeneas; its perjuries are expiated by Roman civil blood.

• The Aeneid §2.4 Troy

  Ilium, the Phrygian city of Priam, shown here in its last night.

• The Aeneid §3.3 Troy

  Fallen Ilium, built by Neptune and Apollo; left smoking as the wanderings begin.

• The Aeneid §4.342 Troy

  Fallen Ilium; Aeneas's lost homeland, which he would tend were the fates not driving him to Italy.

• The Aeneid §6.67 Ilium

  Troy, whose ruin Juno willed; here the gods 'whom Ilium thwarted.'

• The Aeneid §12.828 Troy

  Troy, which Juno bids 'have fallen, with her name'—the Latins keep theirs.

• The Georgics §1.502 Troy

  Ancestral city of the Romans, doomed by Laomedon's perjuries.