Aeneas

The leopard, lion, and the she-wolf are meant to symbolize the three major types of sins. The leopard represents fraudulence, the lion symbolizes violence, and the she-wolf represents immoderation. The animal that seems to pose the greatest problem for Dante is the she-wolf. Even though Dante states that it was the leopard that caused him “more than once she me turn about to go back down”, it was the sight of the she-wolf that made Dante loose all hope as he thought at first sight, “Then, a grim…

of Caesar, because the beginning of Suetonius’s “Live of the Twelve Caesars” was destroyed. It begin to explain the origins of his name, and what his life may have been like as child. He comes from a patrician family, which claims decadence from Aeneas, and through him Venus. It then tells tales from Caesar being captured by pirates, to his survival during the time of Sulla. His path of power is mainly focused on his early offices, and his political opponents, like Cato and Bibulous. It puts…

The Inferno has influenced people around the world for almost 700 years. Most people think of Hell as a place where you don’t want to go and is miserable. This is because the Inferno is the basis of what we think of hell. The Inferno is a poem that Dante Alighieri wrote in 1320 about his fictional journey through Hell. The Inferno is the first of three sections of the Divine Comedy and would become one of the most famous books of its time. Throughout the poem, the reader can tell that Dante uses…

The Iliad and the Old Testament play a significant role in American culture. Retailing of these stories has appeared in books, film, and other forms of media. The movie “Troy”, Hollywood’s version of the Greek poem, is an example of an old story that was told throughout the centuries retold to a modern audience, with some parts of the poem not being represented in the movie. The Old Testament of the Bible is also another story that is retold through the perspective of others. Used to influence…

defiance, anger, willfulness, and resourcefulness define a character who strives never to yield. In many ways Satan is heroic when compared to such Classical prototype”. He is heroic when compared to such Classical prototypes as Achilles, Odysseus, and Aeneas and to similar protagonists in medieval and Renaissance epics. In sum, his traits reflect theirs. “Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote in A Defence of Poetry that ‘nothing can exceed the energy and magnificence of the character of Satan as…

Caesar was born on July 12, 100 BC into a wealthy patrician family, which claimed decent from Lulus son of a Trojan prince Aeneas. His father died when he was 15 years of age. He was also kidnapped by Sicilian pirates only to crucify his captors shortly after he began his military career. He was suspected but not convicted of involvement in the Catalina Conspiracy, which put him at odds with the dictator Luscious Cornelius Sulla who almost had him killed. Cesar then left to join the army but…

and death, they seem to be opposites, but too often in works of literature, they are brought together in a matrimony that causes only sorrow for those there to witness it. It does not always start out sorrowful, of course. In the case of Dido and Aeneas, the reader sees them enjoying…

Violence was what started Rome tracing back to the story of Aeneas with the sack of Troy. It was violence that also gave way to stability as no nation dare cross the might of the Roman Empire. What caused the decline and eventual fall of Rome was a multitude of things; There was a series of inept emperors, corruption…

strong soldier Diomedes, with an arrow. Athena then awards Diomedes with superhuman strength, on the condition that he only attacks Aphrodite. Diomedes then, breaking his oath, goes on the kill the archer Pandaraus, as well as wounding the Trojan hero Aeneas. Aphrodite then goes to assist Aneas, when Diomedes strikes her in the wrist with a spear, spilling her immortal blood (Pride), Aphrodite flees to Olympus for treatment, where Zeus scolds her and tells her not to go back to the mêlée.…

Throughout the history of surviving literature, the exploration of human destiny is a theme that authors return to again and again. Questions of whether humans can decide their own fate or if humanity is subjected to the whims of a higher power are asked as frequently now as much as the forefathers of literature did in their own time. Correspondingly, Homer’s The Iliad placed a significant focus on the Fates, the three immortal sisters who knit, measured, and cut the thread of life for each…