Carthage

Do you ever feel like people put everything on the line for love, and then it be for nothing? Aeneid book IV by Virgil is the main text that this essay will be focused on. Aeneid was about this crazy queen Dido that has recently lost her husband. This does a number on her mentally and to worsen her state she gets into a love affair with a fellow named Aeneid. To get to the point they have this relationship in a cave for a while to try to combine their kingdoms, but then Aeneid tries to pull out…

“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,…

A. THEMES AND MAIN IDEA. I. Invictus Invictus is a Latin word means undefeated thus it leads us to the theme of this poem. The theme of the poem is survival and strength, the will to survive in the face of a severe test, having the motivation to thrive even when confronted by the most difficult trials in life. The poets idea is to make us aware of his hardships in the past that made him to put faith in himself, he relates the use of his theme to the extreme challenges he experienced, his…

The Roman Empire has gone down in history as one or even the greatest empire of the ancient world. Many who were citizens of this glorious empire held deep pride and love for their country, but even though they considered Rome the greatest city in the known world they still compared themselves to past civilizations. Virgil, the author of The Aeneid used his epic poem to accomplish this. In the Aeneid, Virgil pays homage to Rome’s cultural predecessors, the Greeks. He does this by drawing…

In 216 B.C. Rome went to war against Hannibal and suffered one of the greatest defeats in their history; a battle called Cannae. At Cannae the massive Roman army was surrounded by Hannibal's troops, and during the fighting almost all the Roman soldiers were killed. The news reached Rome, and mothers of soldiers were told that their sons had been killed at Cannae. The stories have it that when the few surviving soldiers came home the mothers were so surprised to see them after thinking they were…

Both Odysseus and Telemachus play extremely pivotal and important roles in Homer’s The Odyssey. The phrase “like father like son” can easily describe the similarities between Odysseus and Telemachus’s characters. However, no human beings are exactly alike as both characters also share a great number of differences. So although Odysseus and Telemachus are both similar in the way that they’re great heroic warriors, they differ in craftiness and arrogance which reflect Ancient Greek values.…

Spartacus was a person in the first century B.C., this means, that he lived in the era of the romans. But the real question is, why did he become famous? Spartacus was a slave leader of the third servile war. The question why the other two servile wars are less famous, will be explained later. Spartacus became famous when he started the third servile war, before the third servile war, we don’t know much about him. Most people say, Spartacus served the romans for some fights and killed a roman…

People are able to succeed in a mission by having a single-minded devotion to their goal. Aengus wanted to find the girl he fell in love with. Ernesto Galarza wanted to become an American but still retain his Mexican heritage. Annie Johnson started her own business so that she could support her children and not have others care for them. Aengus wanted to find love while Galarza and Johnson wanted to survive desperate circumstances; however all three shared the ability to endure hardship. Aengus…

knew this would be the reaction, and thus wrote accordingly. For example, as Aeneas is struggling with idea of abandoning Dido because it is what the fates have ordered, Virgil writes, “The vision stunned Aeneas, struck him dumb…He burns to flee Carthage; he would quit these pleasant lands, astonished by such warnings, the command of gods” (Aeneid, IV, 373-377). Readers can relate to facing hard choices in their own lives, being tempted by what brings them pleasure versus what the gods would…

Briefly discuss how the governments of Rome and Carthage differed. The governments of Rome and Carthage differ in a few ways. For one, Rome couldn’t get a handle on how their government was going to work. They failed and succeeded many times through trial and error. For instance, in Macedonia, Rome had tried dividing the kingdom into four separate states. However, there was still resistance from the citizens and Rome wanted them to be completely submissive. Macedonia proved to be trouble. A man…