Aeneid

The Aeneid by Virgil, centered on the Trojan warrior Aeneas, tells the tale of a survivor’s journey to fulfill destiny by founding a new city for the Trojan refugees. While searching for this destined kingdom, Aeneas has a vision of his father Anchises and receives the “Rule of Law” which will dictate the actions of this new city’s inhabitants. The future city was to be structured on this rule, “To spare the defeated, break the proud in war,” (A. VI. 980) as well as rational thinking. During…

The Aeneid, by Virgil, follows the journey of Aeneas and his crew from the fallen Troy to their new home in modern day Italy. Along the way they face many trials and battle with many other nations before landing on the shores of King Latium’s kingdom. At this point, the area around the future Tiber River was ruled by two warring kings: Latium and Evander. Throughout the course of Book VII and Book VIII, the true characterization of each king and their nations are explained. This drives the plot…

In “The Aeneid”, Virgil describes to the Roman people, through an epic tell, how they came to be. How the great Roman civilization came into power, through the hardship and trials of the Trojan people. Virgil speaks to his people through this text to build pietas or dutifulness in an attempt to mature the virtue of his people. He also provides several examples of not only pietas, but constantia or perseverance as well, both of which are the characteristic traits that he wants his civilization to…

Book XI of Odyssey, though some of the punishments in Hades were described in details by Homer, it lacks sense of fright and true misery compared to Book VI of Aeneid. Homer makes it more towards the sense of endless wasting time by the souls of the dead, when people reached the afterlife. This sense does not being shared with Virgil’s Aeneid. When Aeneas reached the divided road that separates Tartarus and Elysium, Aeneas heard “… From the interior, groans; Are heard, and thud of lashes,…

Aeneas’ journey compared to Greek heroes in epic, is distinctly bigger picture. His story doesn’t fall into the confines of bigger happenings, like a moment in the Trojan War or the end of a ten year journey home. Aeneas’ journey is the founding of Rome. It’s not as personal a journey when comparison to the Odyssey where Odysseus makes his voyage home to his wife and son. While there is no doubt that Vergil has created a story about Aeneas and his experiences, the end result is about much more…

My argument in this paper is that the heroic values between Homer’s Odysseus and Vergil’s Aeneas reveals a shift from Greek tradition to morally equivocal Roman ideals. As it is in the narrator’s intention for the reader to choose between protagonists with two heads on the same coin, I will establish moral discrepancy by looking at the meaning between the poems’ Gods and role of women. Before concluding such a subjective opinion, it must be said that these are matters over which the Gods…

The way in which Cacus dies is much more grandiose way. Hercules attacks Cacus with trees and milestones. This makes the story much more lively and grandiose. This story being in the Aeneid is part of the epic poem. It was supposed to raise roman patriotism and mirror the epics of Homer. Livy is purely giving his story to inform those of what most likely happened, or what has been told. He stated that he is just trying to give a true…

a first century B.C.E. Roman epic poem writer. Virgil wrote the greatest epic poem and the most influential work of all classical literature, The Aeneid. The Aeneid makes up twelve books in total and it incorporates various legends of Aeneas who later becomes the founder of the Roman Empire. The story of “The Final Hours of Troy” is Book II of The Aeneid and it’s told by the Trojan Prince, Aeneas, to a Queen named Didio and her court. This long and tragic story begins with the 10-year war…

“The Aeneid” for 11 years, before he could finish it, falling deathly ill, he was never to revise it and send it to the public. However, The Aeneid was still published anyway, and after it was published, it was favored all around Rome. This, in turn, led to Virgil’s fame being seen at its peak and The Aeneid would be read and enjoyed by many more to come. Although Virgil was not able to live his fame, he took it with him to his grave, and people around the world still love and read “The Aeneid”…

Dido’s complete “breakdown” when Aeneas leaves Carthage is perhaps the most memorable aspect of her character, which is fairly disturbing from a feminist perspective (and in general). Aeneas is scolded by the gods for wasting time in the city, and covertly prepares to leave; Dido somehow senses this, and begins to “[rave] and run wild,” to the point where Vergil describes her, in one translation, as “devoid of soul.” (4.300-4.301) This section of the text can be viewed as an extended comparison…