Aeneid

and accepts their duties to the gods, their family, and most necessarily their empire. Moreover, heroism intertwines with pietas which demonstrate the ability to make sacrifices for the benefit of an empire. Hence, in the epic poem of Virgil’s The Aeneid, the protagonist Aeneas is a well-known leader who is also simultaneously an apprehensive and dynamic character that agonizes with fully committing himself to the ideology of heroism and pietas. Afflicted in the seams of what his heart hungers…

goddesses. In book VI of Aeneid by Virgil, Aeneas, the main character of the story, clearly showed this concept of duty. The reader can clearly see how “duty bound” Aeneas is through his decision to enter the Underworld and leaving Dido, his love behind. Despite of the terrifying Underworld and the sorrow of leaving his lover, Aeneas did not hesitate to follow Apollo’s prophecy, which demonstrated the Romans’ strong sense of duty towards…

The Aeneid: Literary Analysis During the rule of Emperor Augustus, Virgil began composing The Aeneid, an epic about a hero Aeneas. Through the poem, Virgil provides his audience of how Rome came to be and the characteristics that were inherited as its identity. Virgil uses his work to convey to readers, certain Roman virtues, such as Pietas (duty to the gods and family), Labor (tireless striving) and Fatum (need to bring peace to the world) all Romans should have had. Along with virtues,…

The Importance of Suffering The Aeneid by Virgil is an epic story about a man's struggles and adventures to found Rome. Aeneas, son of Anchises and Venus, is the protagonist throughout The Aeneid. Throughout this epic there is many books that tell the story about how Aeneas finds and founds his new homeland after Troy, his original homeland, is destroyed. Throughout his adventure he ends up in Carthage. Little does he know there would be an impactful woman by the name of Dido. Dido, the…

Virgil’s The Aeneid provides a plethora of symbols and metaphors relating to events that occurred during and directly before the reign of Augustus. This can be seen with throughout the piece and especially in book 6, with the story of Anchises, Aeneas’ father, discussing all the great Romans that will spring from the great city that Aeneas is bound by fate to found. The reasons behind this are clear when it is understood that Virgil was paid to write the piece for the Augustan Empire as a form…

rather big part of human nature, everyone needs love and give other people love as well. Love plays a role in present day life sometimes distracting people of their needs and duties just as it did in the past which is illustrated in Virgil’s The Aeneid “Book IV: The Passion of the Queen” by Virgil is about Dido, Queen of Carthage, and Aeneas, a Trojan warrior, who begin to fall in love with each other. As this is happening, the god Mercury comes down to Aeneas and reminds him that he needs to…

rage when he saw that the latter was wearing the sword belt that had belonged to Pallas (Virgil, Aeneid 12.1027-1107). Aeneas loses the objective calm he has managed to keep over many months. He proclaims to Turnus, “you in your plunder, torn from one of mine – shall I be robbed of you? This wound will come from Pallas. Pallas makes this offering, and from your criminal blood exacts his due” (Virgil, Aeneid 12.1291-1294). He then stabs Turnus in the chest. Aeneas is not pleased by what he has…

bystanders will procure. It is my belief that when we are tested with choices we have a grander duty to the collective good rather than to ourselves. I believe the path of greater good parallels the Divine route established by our God. In the story, The Aeneid, one young leader is confronted with such a decision.…

Many people look at Virgil’s Aeneid as a complementary story to the Odyssey, the epic yarn spun by Homer. These tales follow two parallel chains of effect starting from the Trojan War. The Odyssey tells of the titular hero Odysseus’ long and tumultuous journey home after his victory on the fields of Ilium while the Aeneid gives us the story of Aeneas as he attempts to find a land on which to settle his fleeing people after the blazing destruction of his homeland. The differences between these…

In the second book of the Aeneid, Virgil portrays his main character Aeneas as a saddened man as he begins to tell the story of how his beloved city Troy fell to the Greek army. Starting with how the Greek he explains how the Trojans were tricked by Sinon, the Greek captive and spy, and the goddess Minerva, into taking the Greek horse, full of Greek soldiers, behind Trojan lines. In this book, he also explains in detial how he fullfiled his pietas toward his father, his wife Creusa, and to the…