Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Creusa.
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Aeneas Fleeing from Troy
Pompeo Batoni, 1750
Batoni's flight from Troy keeps Creusa in the family group — Priam's daughter and Aeneas' first wife still present as the city burns, before she vanishes in Virgil's dark streets.
Aeneas Fleeing Troy with Anchises, Creusa, and Ascanius
Unknown, 18th–19th century
A Metropolitan Museum print after Aeneid 2 names Creusa among the fleeing household — wife, father, and son in the moment before she is lost.
Aeneas and the Ghost of His Wife Creusa
Unknown, 18th–19th century
The Virgilian farewell: Creusa's shade appears to Aeneas after the sack — not to follow him west, but to free him for Italy and Lavinia.
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Aeneid
Virgil
Virgil gives Creusa her ghost-speech in Book 2: the wife who cannot sail for Italy, blessing Aeneas' future kingdom as she fades into Troy's night.
Creusa (wife of Aeneas)
Daughter of Priam and Hecuba, first wife of Aeneas and mother of Ascanius — lost in the sack, remembered as a shade.