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The Bireme of Æneas was the ship sailed by the Trojan hero, Æneas, and other refugees from the fall of Troy. They made their way west across the Mediterranean, eventually landing in Latium and beginning a conquest that would lead to the founding of Rome some decades later in 753 BCE. This story is told in Virgil’s The Æneid.

The bireme is said to have been displayed on the banks of the Tiber in Rome, on the spot where it landed. Augustus saw to it that the ship was given a monumental platform, preserving this aspect of Rome’s founding myth for generations to come.