Aeneads

In Roman mythic tradition the Aeneads are the people who accompanied Aeneas when he fled Troy after its sack following the Trojan War. Commanded by the gods in the epic tradition, Aeneas gathered family, followers, and cult objects (notably the Penates) and led them in a series of wanderings that culminated in settlement in Italy; as a collective they function as progenitors and cultural ancestors for later peoples, notably the Romans, and patronymic forms (Aenides, Aeneades) were applied to descendants or those claimed to be founded by Aeneas.

The Aeneads have no shared supernatural morphology in the sources; they are ordinary human individuals and family members. Sources enumerate named companions and relatives such as Achates, Anchises, Creusa, Ascanius, Misenus, Nisus and Euryalus, Mnestheus, Sergestus, and others. Household cult figures associated with them (the Lares and the Penates) are sometimes listed alongside human members, reflecting the mixed composition of Aeneas' migrating community.

The group has no supernatural powers attributed in the provided sources. Their 'abilities' are social and narrative: they accompany and support Aeneas during exile and war, perform roles within the story (for example Misenus is described as Aeneas' trumpeter; Nisus and Euryalus are noted as heroic companions in episodic deeds), and as a collective they serve etiological functions — their travels and settlements explain origins of peoples and cities and legitimise descent (the patronymics Aenides/Aeneades are applied to descendants such as Ascanius, Augustus, or populations claiming Aenean ancestry).