The Trojan hero Aeneas escaped his burning homeland of Troy after it was taken by the Greeks in the Trojan War and sailed west, landing eventually in Italy. With him was his father Anchises, who died on the way and was buried in Sicily. Aeneas held the traditional funeral games for him (shown here in this 1907 illsutration). Aeneas was honored by Romans as their great ancestor.The text that accompanied this illustration reads: He rose to his feet just at the moment that Salius was coming up and contrived to stand in his way so as to overturn him. Euryalus, who had still kept the third place, now sprang forward and was easily victorious amid the applause of the crowd. Elymus came in next and close behind him Diores, but Salius loudly demanded that the first prize of right belonged to him.