Aeneas

Menelaus led an expedition of Greeks to Troy and besieged the city for ten years until the ruse of the Trojan horse eventually brought about the city’s fall and the Trojans were ordered to be slaughtered except a few women and children taken as slaves. One small group of survivors did, however, manage to flee the burning city. Led by a young warrior prince named Aeneas, they wandered throughout the Mediterranean region for many years seeking to establish a new homeland elsewhere.

Eventually Aeneas and his followers arrived at the mouth of the Tiber River in Italy. Three hundred years later, there, according to Roman myth, his descendants Romulus and Remus founded Rome.