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Obedience, Honor, And Fate In The Aeneid By Virgil

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The Aeneid, written by Virgil, was an epic that took a different approach to the stories from The Iliad and The Odyssey. The story followed the Trojan demi-god Aeneas. Aeneas can be describes as the perfect man, who is patriotic, loyal, and dutiful to the gods and his destiny. Aeneas took Trojan survivors and fled the burning city of troy to find Italy, the place where he was predestined to find. Aeneas’s posterity was destined to found Rome and many great leaders that would issue Rome into a golden age. Throughout the epic, Aeneas must deal with the wrath of Juno, since her favorite city, Carthage, was destined to fall to the Romans. Aeneas’s tale explores themes of obedience, honor, and fate. Throughout The Aeneid, Aeneas’s character is
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