Antandrus

Description

Antandrus is mentioned in the sixth canto of Paradiso, in the passage where the eagle recalls Caesar's campaigns against Pompey and reviews the places of the Troad, from which the flight followed by Aeneas had departed. The notes to the canto identify Antandrus as a maritime city of Phrygia, the port of departure for Aeneas's ships, associating it with the river Simois, which crosses the plain of Troy, and with the tomb of Hector. The geographical sequence traced by Dante, from Spain to Dyrrachium, to Pharsalus, to the Nile, and thence to the Troad, outlines the space traversed by the victorious army from West to East and culminates in the Trojan places from which the history of Rome takes its origin.