Category: The Aeneid

Many themes surround and encapsulate the essence in which Virgil penned The Aeneid as a response to Homers Odyssey. According to many acclaimed scholars, The Aeneid is a carbon copy of The Odyssey. In my opinion, Aeneas and Odysseus are two different heroes with different themes, goals, and destined fates. As far as themes go…

The topic about death, fate, and destiny troubles the human heart and mind, and every human tend to ignore this discussion. While many people believe in life after death, most people choose to keep away from the talking about it because of fear of the mysterious afterlife. However, when people decided to discuss what they…

Virgils Aeneid is one of the most renowned classical literature that exists. Moreover, Aeneid can be considered as a literary epic . While the ambition behind Aeneid is still being debated by scholars, one of the ideas behind this literary work is the national greatness of Rome . Just like Ovids Metamorphoses, Virgils Aeneid also…

Virgil writes the Aeneid between the years 29-19 BCE. The Aeneid tells the legendary story of a man named Aeneas and how he found the city of Rome. Consisted of twelve books, the Aeneid is an epic poem. The Aeneid is considered one of the historically relevant works of Latin literature because it tells the…