This page is not complete: it's a work in progress.
- Before we get to the diaspora from Troy, it should be
mentioned that Dardanus, whence the name of the Trojans as
"Dardans" comes, is said in Aeneid 3.163 and 7.273 and
8.180 to have come from Hesperia (an
ancient-even-in-ancient-times name for Italy)!
- So the Trojans are returning home when they go to Italy,
after a fashion!
- Also worth mentioning is Book XX of Iliad where Aeneas
is fighting Achilles, but Poseidon saves him because he needs to
cary on the Trojan line. THAT IS WHERE THE AENEID COMES FROM!
So, the Diaspora
- Trojan side
- Aeneas:
- Short catalog of his men as founders of Roman lineages at
funeral games in honor of Anchises at Acestes' place on
Sicily
- Mnestheus founder of Memmius clan
- Sergestus founder of Sergian house
- Cloanthus founder of Cluentius family
- ...5.735
- Atys founder of Atii family
- Iulus, of course, founder of Julii family
- 5.985: Aeneas set up a town near Acestes' town in Sicily.
He left behind those of his people who were too exhausted or
old or young to make the trip to Italy, and he set up a
shrine on the mountain.
- Antenor, founder of Padua: Aeneid I.241ff
- Acestes in Sicily: went there from Troy long before the
Trojan war, back when Poseidon and Apollo built the walls of
Troy. Aeneid I.550; 5.42
- Helenus and Andromache rule in Chaonia Aeneid 3.
398: 480 has "Troy in miniature" view
- not really diaspora, but book 7 opens with Caieta, Aeneas'
wetnurse, who was buried/burned at the bay of Gaeta and gave
her name to it.
- Auson, son of Calypso and Odysseus: "Ausonia," aka "the land
of Auson," is frequently referred to in the prophecies of
where Aeneas is supposed to go and found Rome
- Ausonia is an ancient Greek name for lower Italy
- the Ausones (descendants of Auson)were people in the
region of Latium, where Aeneas eventually ends up settling
in Italy
- Transfer of remains: look for article sent to class via
email.
look on Amanda's presentation for xfer of bones TO Troy
- Eryx of Sicily is called Aeneas 'brother' at 5.31, because
Eryx was also supposedly Venus' son (with Butes as father),
but also the local Sicilian tribe of the Elymi is
referred to by ancient writers Thucydides and Strabo as
somehow of Trojan descent. Clearly predates the Trojan War.
- Greek Side
- Idomeneus of Crete was driven out of Crete while away at
Troy (he fought on the Greek side) and settled on the
Sallentine Plain, the "heel" of Italy's boot. Aeneid
3.542
- Philoctetes in Petelia: fragment of Cato, around 216BCE also
reports this, says Servius. see Aeneid 3.543
- 7.1000: Halaesus, Agamemnon's son, is among Turnus' allies
from Italy.
- 7.514: Turnus is said to be descended from Inachus and
Acrisius, of Argos in Mycenae!
- Evander, Aeneas' ally and Pallas' father, came from Arcadia
on the Peloponnese in Greece, before the Trojan war. He is
supposed to be the one who brought the alphabet, as well as
Greek gods and laws, to Italy: he is featured in Aeneid
8.212ff a bit, where Evander tells Aeneas that Priam had
visited Arcadia in Evander's youth. Their families shared
guest friendship.
Outside of Aeneid:
- Trojan Side
- Brutus aka Brute, of Troy: descendant of Aeneas, reputedly,
but also of Biblical characters!
- Invented in middle ages.
- Genealogy as imaginative rooting of a nation into the past
- obvious tie-in to Rome via Aeneas, but also O.T.
- Tenea, a settlement on the Peloponnese, was purportedly
founded by Trojan captives brought back from Troy by
Agamemnon.
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46205607
- Greek Side
- Dionysus of Halicarnassus Roman Antiquities 1.72
reports that Xenagoras says that Circe and Odysseus have three
sons
- Romus/Rhomos/Romos (all these spellings exist) founded
Rome
- the same passage in Dionysus says that other versions
report that "this man was the son of Ascanius, and
according to others the son of Emathion. There are others
who declare that Rome was built by Romus, the son of I
talus and Leucaria, the daughter of Latinus."
- Anteias/Antias founded Antium
- Ardeias/Ardias founded Ardea (Ardea is mentioned in Aeneid,
but not the founding hero Ardeias)
There are also several instances of bones of heroes from the
Trojan War being brought here or there for cult purposes: that is
a sort of diaspora as well.