How to pronounce “aeneas” in English

for the simple reason that Virgil in writing his great epic of the foundation of Rome, Aeneas fleeing as a Trojan from the burning city of Troy

because this is America, those three quotes of Virgil on this bill-- because the idea was to reset Europe exactly as Aeneas

In the final scene of the poem, you see the hero, Aeneas, kill somebody who has surrendered to him in a war crime

or a different story, but equally popular, how the Roman race was founded by Aeneas who had been a Trojan hero in the great war

You look at those kind of stories, you discover that Romans are imagining their origins in terms of being a home for refugees like Aeneas.