Destiny, Love, and Suffering: The Relationship between Aeneas and Dido The wretched love affair of Aeneas and Dido is one of the most prominent events in The Aeneid by Virgil. In The Aeneid, love is represented in the same manner as the gods. Love is shown as an outside force acting upon mort...

Reclaiming What Was Once Lost Authority is the centerpiece of power. With it, one has the ability to control those around them under the basis of their power, and maintain a given sense of order and duty as well. This notion of the importance of authority is nowhere more evident than in Virgil'...

Virgil's Use of Palinurus In writing The Aeneid, Virgil subtly describes his perspective of the Roman civilization through various means, primarily through the characters in his epic. Rather than using the characters to build the idea that a great Rome is to be created, he instead, comp...