Ignoring the "we wuz trojans" part, how trustworthy

>>2310480
Not at all. It's just a blatant ripoff of the Iliad.

>>2310480
It isn't.

>>2310480
It's about as reliable an origin story as the Lord of the Rings

>>2310480

100% factual except that Dido actually had bigger breasts.

Everything the Romans refer to about their own history prior to 387BC is pretty much myth. The Aeneid is a dramatization of a particular myth with the goal of promoting a pro-Augustinian agenda. Plutarch presents many stories and inconsistencies within popular Roman founding myths in the first few paragraphs of his Life of Romulus.

http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/romulus.html

I can't speak to archaeological evidence but it is likely that if Aeneas was real he would be completely different than how anyone portrays due to exaggeration and the attribution of false characteristics over the centuries.

>>2310488
It deliberately imitates the style of the Odyssey in books I through VI and the Iliad in books VII through XII. It's not a ripoff, it's a deliberate stylistic choice that Virgil is using to tell a very different story than those of Homer why style paying homage to his literary idol.

>>2310488
rips off odyssey first then Iliad
Virgil is reverse homer.

The Aeneid is literally just propaganda for Augustus.

>>2311139
It has a totally different style and if you can't tell its Roman spirit from the first 7 lines you are a helpless philistine pleb

>>2310480
it is totally accurate

As a Sicilian, I can trace my ancestry all the way back to Achates

>>2313374
WE

>>2313374
>half of my family is Normans
>Half is Spanish
>Half is Mooslim


>I'm Italian guys