Aeneid Viewpoints Analysis

“Put yourself in their shoes,” “There’s always two sides to the story”, “You don’t know what they’ve gone through.” All common phrases that are told from childhood and therefore tend to overlook from time to time, but they could not be more true in both everyday life and even ancient Roman time. Virgil wrote several books of the Aeneid during ancient Roman times to rival the Greek’s work of the Odyssey. Books two and four of Virgil’s work expressed love and pain, cleverness and stupidity, harness and sympathy, as well as many others while telling the haunting stories of the Roman’s side of the Trojan Horse and Queen Dido’s broken heart. In modern times, this duo of viewpoints is expressed daily. A widely talked about example of this in the …show more content…
At one point or another, problems are bound to occur in any relationship, and when they do events can get twisted one way or another. The first of many conflicting viewpoints in book IV of the Aeneid began when Queen Dido and Aeneas had an unofficial marriage. “That day was the first cause of death, and first/ of Sorrow. Dido had no further qualms/ As to impressions given and set abroad;/ She thought no longer of a secret love/ But called it a marriage. Thus under that name,/ she hid her fault.” (Virgil, Aeneid; Book IV 221-227). Although Queen Dido and Aeneas did not actually get married, she was so smitten that she believed that they truly had. Aeneas on the other hand, would later make himself feel better about leaving by using the fact that they did not actually get married.Whenever feelings and emotions are involved, it is easy for events to be perceived differently from what they actually are. Unfortunately, events can be misconstrued as well once romantic relationships end. Virgil also showed this when Queen Dido was furious that Aeneas was leaving her, even though he had no say. Queen Dido felt as though Aeneas was simply trying to abandoned her. “...Evil, Rumour/ Shameless as before, brought word to her/ In her distracted states of ships being rigged/ In tirm of sailing. Furious, at her wits’ end,/ She transvered the whole city a flame/ With rage like Bacchante driven …show more content…
In 2014 the nation was divided on the Michael Brown case and the Black-Lives-Matters campaign. Through the peaceful and and not so peaceful protest, the Nation has chosen sides of the disagreement based on moral values and beliefs. Just as in Virgil's epics, citizens have to make decisions based on their perspectives everyday. With the current social issues going on in America, people decide if they support the Black Lives Matter campaign or not based on their beliefs as well as how the media’s perspective shows it. Although a large portion of the country felt as though the Black-Lives-Matter campaign was against the police, the official website and campaign vows that it is not against the police. “Police officers are people. Their lives have inherent value. This movement is not an anti-people movement; therefore it is not an anti-police-officer