Roman Ruler CAESAR CLAIMED DESCENT FROM Inanna’s Son AENEAS

Roman Ruler CAESAR CLAIMED DESCENT FROM Inanna’s Son AENEAS, who fled Troy for Carthage
By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA)

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Aeneas stayed a year in Carthage as Queen Dido’s lover.

“In the Aeneid (by Virgil), which Julius Caesar cited to justify his apotheosis, a storm blew Aeneas to Carthage Queen Dido’s North African City. Some scholars think Virgil made this up to fawn on Rome’s Emperors.

Dido’s brother Pygmalion had murdered her husband, Sychaeus. Widow Queen Dido entertained Aeneas & his crew. He dazzled her with his exploits in the Trojan War. As Dido & Aeneas connected, Iarbus, King of nearby Getulia, who wanted Dido himself, got mad. She had refused Iarbus’ marriage proposal, she said, because she still mourned Sychaeus. But she fell for Aeneas & took him as her lover. To her subjects, her affair with Aeneas proved her disloyal to Carthage.

Iarbus asked Zeus/Jupiter make Aeneas leave Carthage. Jupiter told Aeneas to go. Aeneas thought he couldn’t disobey Zeus’ command, so Aeneas & his men sneaked off & sailed for Italy.

Dido was burned up by Aeneas’ departure (she died in a funeral pyre she made herself).

To Dido’s subjects, Dido’s passionate love affair with Aeneas compromised her loyalty to her kingdom. She had chosen love over duty to her realms & people but Aeneas honored his duty over his love for Dido. He continued on his mission: founding Rome.

He stopped at Sicily & organized funeral games to honor his father, who had died a year before.

Aeneas arrived on Italy’s west coast at the kingdom of the Latins, where King Latinus welcomed him & he asked for the King’s daughter, Lavinia, in marriage. But Latinus said Lavinia would marry another man & he called on the goddess Juno to help him get rid of Aeneas. War broke out between the Latins & the Trojans & Aeneas’ forces won. After winning this victory, he set up a city called Lavinium. But when Aeneas learned Dido had killed herself & Lavinia became highly jealous, Aeneas killed himself because he could not deal with her jealous rage.