Aeneas, the son of Anchises and Aphrodite, was a hero at Troy, the bravest after his brother-in-law Hector.  He took part in all the important battles during the 10 years siege.  His piety is fabled.  When the Achaeans finally captured Troy they allowed Aeneas because of his bravery to choose from among his posessions one thing to take with him as he left.  The victors were impressed when they saw him choose a stature of his patron god.  They then told him to choose something else as well.  He then loaded his aged father Anchises, who was unable to follow them, on him back.  Moved, the Achaeans, in honor of this pious hero, allowed him to take all the rest of his possessions as well.  The myth goes on to say that Aeneas after travelling far and wide reached the Italian peninsula where he founded Rome or that he lived there and that the city was founded later by his descendant Romulus. In Robert Graves's "The Seige and Fall of Troy" states; "Achilles also attacked Dardanus, a city not far from Troy.  It was ruled by Aeneas, a cousin of King Priam, in the name of his aged father Anchises.  Since, for some reason or other, Priam treated Aeneas coldly, althought his cousin and the son of Aphrodite herself, the Dardannians had remained neutral.  Achilles, not respecting Aeneas's neutrality, chased him down the wooded slodes of Ida, drove off his cattle, killed his herdsman, and sacked Lyrnessus, the city in which he took refuge.  Aeneas was rescued by Almighty Zeus; but Achilles's behavior so angered him (Aeneas) that he went over to the Trojans, and fought bravely for them - helped by his mother Aphrodite."