Written in two different times, The Iliad by Homer and by The Aeneids by Virgil focuses on two war heroes and the paths they must take. Homer makes Achilles a Greek who is fated to destroy the city of the Trojans. Virgil, who was inspired Homer, came to create a Trojan named Aeneas and his quest to eventually settle on the foundations of rome. The Greek influence on Homer’s story, and certain themes like the gods and mythos, carried mixed in and carried over with Roman influence. What is apparent in both these stories is how fate was always held to the protagonist to the story. How the theme of fate is portrayed for these characters is different in the sense that Achilles has more autonomy between choosing his fate while Aeneas destiny is
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Juno sends a storm that kills many members of his crew because of a prophecy, which forewarns of him building the foundations to Rome. Then, after Aeneas’ death, his kin would eventually begin a war which would end in Carthrage’s fall. Just like Achilles, Aeneas also has a goddess for a mother, and she is Venus. During a meeting with Venus, she is concerned for the fate of her son, and she ask Jupiter will the Trojan’s make it to Italy. Jupiter replies to Venus and says, “No councils have revers 'd my firm decree And, lest new fears disturb thy happy state, Know, I have search 'd the mystic rolls of Fate: In Italy shall wage successful war,… This is his time prefix 'd.” Zeus, the god who is revered to hold fate, has decreed the fate of Aeneas making it to Italy. Already we can see that fate is sealed and that Aeneas will be victorious in the end, just as Achilles was prophesized by the gods to do, though the former would have a more linear route still faced with many difficulties. Both The Iliad and The Aeneids draw from the mythos and gods within their literature. They were both especially concerned with the active role of gods in human affairs seen apparent through their constant intervention with human life. In both stories we two protagonist bounded not only by fate, by but the gods as well. In the end we see how a two destined men are meant to have a major impact upon many
Juno sends a storm that kills many members of his crew because of a prophecy, which forewarns of him building the foundations to Rome. Then, after Aeneas’ death, his kin would eventually begin a war which would end in Carthrage’s fall. Just like Achilles, Aeneas also has a goddess for a mother, and she is Venus. During a meeting with Venus, she is concerned for the fate of her son, and she ask Jupiter will the Trojan’s make it to Italy. Jupiter replies to Venus and says, “No councils have revers 'd my firm decree And, lest new fears disturb thy happy state, Know, I have search 'd the mystic rolls of Fate: In Italy shall wage successful war,… This is his time prefix 'd.” Zeus, the god who is revered to hold fate, has decreed the fate of Aeneas making it to Italy. Already we can see that fate is sealed and that Aeneas will be victorious in the end, just as Achilles was prophesized by the gods to do, though the former would have a more linear route still faced with many difficulties. Both The Iliad and The Aeneids draw from the mythos and gods within their literature. They were both especially concerned with the active role of gods in human affairs seen apparent through their constant intervention with human life. In both stories we two protagonist bounded not only by fate, by but the gods as well. In the end we see how a two destined men are meant to have a major impact upon many