The story of a scorned woman has been told in many different ways. In Medea and the Aeneid both Dido and Medea are driven by passion. The old saying that all's fair in love and war fits these stories well. While Medea handled it through revenge, Dido handled her scorn through suicide. Of al...

In Virgil's Aeneid and Homer's Iliad, a picture of the supernatural and its workings was created. In both works, there is a concept of a fixed order of events which is called fate. Fate involves two parts. First, there are laws that govern certain parts of mens' lives, such as human mortality and an...

While Homer's The Odyssey, Virgil's The Aeneid, and Dante's "The Divine Comedy" share the characteristic of being epic poems, they each offer different accounts and opinions of what lies in Hell. While Homer's account of Hell is largely filled with encounters of different personalities, the ...