neas is entrusted the task of founding a new city in
             Italy. So, the epic traces his course from Troy in Anatolia, Turkey to Italy. The epic starts however with unfavorable winds driving the ships to Carthage in North Africa, when they set out from Sicily. Fleeing the
             attraction of Dido in Carthage the ships stop by Sicily again on their way to the mainland of Italy where they land at the mouth of the River Tiber in Latium after visiting the Sibyl at Cumae.
             Within the Aeneid, there are many themes contained in the text. One of them is the The Sufferings of Wanderers. "Where drift my mind so oft by madness warped?" (XII. 228) The first half of the Aeneid tells the story of the Trojans' wanderings as they make their way from Troy to Italy. Ancient culture was oriented toward familial loyalty and geographic origin, and stressed the idea that a homeland is one's source of identity. Because homelessness imp
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