The Aeneid

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Dido entertains her new guests at a banquet where with food and wine, she becomes more infatuated with Aeneas. Venus inflames Dido’s heart and her love for Aeneas begins to grow. So Venus decides that Dido should fall in love with Aeneas. Anchises tells Aeneas what is to come in the near future.

The Aeneid preaches the precedence that organized society and the state must have over the individual in order for men to achieve happiness and the good life. He sees numerous horrible sights like: Grief, Disease, Old Age, Fear, Hunger, and several others. Vergil made a hero who was at one and the same time Homeric and Roman and also ancient and modern. On many occasions, Aeneas and a friend talk about past adventures. Dido kills herself because Aeneas left Carthage and rejected her love and pleadings to remain with him in northern Africa.

Aeneas journeys through the underworld with the aid of a Sibyl. He tries to talk to her, but his words serve no purpose; she flees from him. This poem is not really concerned with the life and adventures of Aeneas but with the part he played in founding the Roman state and with the way he embodies the most important Roman personal qualities and attributes, particularly duty and responsibility. Anchises lists the descendants of Aeneas, leaving special mention on Caesar by placing him directly after Romulus. After witnessing all he did in the Underworld, Aeneas finally meets his father Anchises.

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Approximate Word count = 482
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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