Netherlands/Turkey: 'Aeneas at the Court of Latinus'. Oil on canvas painting by Ferdinand Bol (24 June 1616 - 24 August 1680), c. 1661-1663. In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas was a prince of Troy, the son of Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite, and the legendary founder of Rome. His voyages and heroism are recounted in Homer’s ‘The Iliad’ and Virgil's ‘Aeneid’. In the ‘Aeneid’, the Trojan prince boosts his crew’s morale on the long voyage from Troy (modern-day Turkey) to Rome. He organizes ship races. Here he rewards the winner of a race with a magnificent suit of armour.

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