Aeneas fleeing Troy

An emotional scene on a 1st century CE coin - Aeneas fleeing burning Troy carrying his father and holding the hand of his young son. These are the ancestors of the Alban priestess and Vestal Virgin Rhea Silvia (and her sons Romulus and Remus, the former being Rome's legendary founder).

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