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Who Is The Virtue Of Honor In Virgil's The Aeneid

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In Books 5 & 6 of Virgil’s the Aeneid, the late Anchises exemplifies ultimate wisdom in the Underworld, thus making him the ideal father to Aeneas. Anchises fulfilled the virtuous life of a leader, and is now guiding his son to achieve his destiny. Aeneas’ actions on the significant anniversary displays just how devoted this beneficiary was to the influential, and prominent, figure in the making of a true Trojan warrior (5.65-66, 70-73). Being full of wisdom, Anchises, “revealed the mysteries one by one,” to the son that has made him, and inevitably will make him, so proud (6.858). To me, Anchises has transformed, even after death, into a very proud head of his ancestral line (6.806). When you talk to the elderly, all they want to do is boast
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