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…The suggestion that Book Four of Virgil's Aeneid ought to be called 'the tragedy of Dido' is a controversial one. It is firstly questionable as to whether Book Four fulfils the criteria of a tragedy in the ancient, or the contemporary sense of the word…

…of Medea and Aeneid. Both the Roman and the Greeks respected and feared their gods. Romans preferred war. It was in their nature to fight. They were raised to battle. Romans were not well rounded; their main or only study growing up was physical training…

…In Homer’s Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid, Hermes and Mercury portray similar conceptualizations of love as well as differing ideas regarding duty to the “Voice of God”. Both Homer and Virgil believe love and obsession are intertwined. Homer…

…Virgil had several aims in constructing his epic, The Aeneid. Having studied and admired the work of Homer, he wanted to create a classic of Odyssean and Iliadic quality that charted the glory of the Romans rather than the Greeks. Through allusions…

…In The Medea by Euripides and The Aeneid by Virgil the characters of Medea and Dido respond to desertion by their husbands, the individual they love most, in the form of a quarrel. Both characters go on to attempt to alleviate their pain via revenge…

…The second book of Virgil's Aeneid is the account of the sack of Troy from Aeneas' point of view. Since Aeneas is the narrator, the characterisation of him and his men is particularly interesting because it demonstrates the way in which Virgil intended…

…, the classical authors of The Odyssey, The Aeneid and Histories all convey the theme of "them vs. us" through their portrayals of Xenoi. Homer in "The Odyssey" brings up this sense of "them vs. us" when he depicts Odysseus telling the Phaiakians the obstacles of his…

…character of Virgil's Aeneid, Aeneas, is such a person, it is not by his own doing. He encounters situations in which death is near, in which love, hate, peace, and war come together to cause both good and evil. In these positions he conducts himself with honor…

…Apart from the events of Book IV, the Aeneid cannot be viewed as a tragedy to the extent of classifying it as a tragedy. Instead, whilst it contains certain elements of tragedy, the epic nature of the story and the final victory of Aeneas over Turnus…

…The portion of Book II of the Aeneid beginning at line 57 and ending at line 194, in which Sinon convinces the Trojans that the wooden horse should be brought inside their walls, is a masterful display of deceit. We shall see that Sinon's skill consists…