Mimas (Aeneid)

Within Virgil's epic framework Mimas is introduced as a Trojan nobleman, son of Amycus and Theano, who accompanied Aeneas from Troy to Italy. Virgil names him among the Trojans fighting in Latium and records his death in the battle episodes of Book X; the poem treats these details as part of its literary account of the Trojan contingent rather than as a separate cultic origin.

Virgil's Book X passages and the cited modern summaries do not supply an extended physical description of Mimas. He is characterized in the epic manner by lineage and personal ties (son of Amycus and Theano; friend and birth-mate of Paris) rather than by sustained bodily detail, following an epic convention of naming warriors to register social identity and loss.

Mimas is portrayed as a mortal combatant: a noble Trojan who fights alongside Aeneas during the Italian campaigns and is listed among those slain in the Book X battle narrative. No supernatural powers, magical abilities, or extraordinary faculties are ascribed to him in the Virgilian text or the cited summaries; his agency is that of an armed warrior in epic warfare.