The Trojans rescue him in Book III.Īchatës (uh- kay-teez) Known as "the faithful Achatës," he is Aeneas's armor-bearer and a devoted follower of the Trojan hero throughout the epic poem.Īeneas (uh- nee-us) Romans regarded Aeneas as the ancestor of Augustus - the emperor for whom Virgil wrote the Aeneid - and of the entire Roman state, since Romulus and Remus, Rome's legendary cofounders, were believed to be descended from the race of kings established by Silvius, Aeneas's son by his second wife, Lavinia. Acestës (uh- sehs-teez) The king of Drepanum, in western Sicily, he gives refuge to Aeneas and his people in Books III and V after storms drive them off course.Īchaemenidës ( a-kuh- mihn-ih-deez) A Greek crewman of Ulysses, he is accidentally abandoned on Sicily, home of the Cyclopes, when his companions flee from the angry one-eyed giants.
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