Aeneas

Unapproved bronze sculpture concept; August 13, 2009; for the first million dollar high school west of the Mississippi, built in 1931.

Although Troy fell with Aeneas being a near-lone survivor to the spoils of the Greeks and Achilles’ unquenchable wrath, his descendants, the twins Remus and Romulus suckled by the she-wolf, founded Rome — one of history’s greatest and most influential civilizations spanning a thousand years.

“Fate raises up, and Fate casts down the happy and unhappy alike: no man foretells his Fate.”

— Sophocles (450 BC)
(translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald)