Housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, the sculpture depicts a scene from the Aeneid, where the hero Aeneas leads his family from burning Troy.

When the hero Aeneas sued for Lavinia's hand in marriage, Amata opposed him because she had already promised Lavinia to Aeneas' nemesis Turnus.

It was the outstanding quality of the Roman hero Aeneas, to whom the epithet pius is applied regularly throughout the Aeneid.

The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad, composed in the 8th century BC.

Written under the reign of Augustus, The Aeneid presents the hero Aeneas as a strong and powerful leader.

In Virgil's epic, the god Jupiter requires the hero Aeneas to leave his beloved Dido, who then commits suicide and burns in a funeral pyre.

In Virgil's Aeneid, Turnus was the King of the Rutuli, and the chief antagonist of the hero Aeneas.

The hero Aeneas attempts to break off boughs to decorate an altar, but instead the wood drips with black blood.

It was the distinguishing virtue of the founding hero Aeneas, who is often given the adjectival epithet pius throughout Vergil's epic Aeneid.

According to the Roman historian Livy, Jupiter Indiges is the name given to the deified hero Aeneas.