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The author speculates that the Aphrodite shrine near Rome may have been a "stepping-stone" (ibid) for Greek willingness to identify the twelfth century BC Aeneas, the sole survivor of the siege of Troy, and thus a chief representative of Phrygian Greece, with the also nearby, and third most prestigious shrine in Italy of the era, Juppiter Latiaris, and regard it and Rome as being founded by a descendant of Aeneas.
The author speculates that the Aphrodite shrine near Rome may have been a "stepping-stone" (ibid) for Greek willingness to identify the twelfth century BC Aeneas, the sole survivor of the siege of Troy, and thus a chief representative of Phrygian Greece, with the also nearby, and third most prestigious shrine in Italy of the era, Juppiter Latiaris, and regard it and Rome as being founded by a descendant of Aeneas.
===The legend of Aeneas===
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