Aeneas initially showed up in the Iliad, the epic ballad ascribed to the eighth-century b.c. Greek artist Homer, as a Trojan warrior, the child of Aphrodite (the Roman Venus), striking for his devotion to the divine beings. The scene of Aeneas getting away from Troy after its pulverization around 1200 b.c. shows up in Greek vase depictions from the sixth century b.c. forward, and by the fourth century b.c. it had started to show up in Italic workmanship also. In the Aeneid, the epic lyric by the principal century b.c. Roman poet Virgil, Aeneas in the end went to Italy, where he established the city of Lavinium. Many years after the fact, in 753 b.c., Aeneas' relative Romulus established the city of