... of the Roman state. Achilles and Aeneas are both similar and different and both represent the heroic qualities of their cultures. Both in Virgil's Aeneid and Homer's Iliad, a picture of the supernatural and its workings were created.  In both works, there ... Ares in regards to his role in the lives of humans when he states in one of the important quotes from The Iliad by Homer, "We everlasting gods . . . Ah what chilling blows/ we suffer- ... knows that the gods are watching and finds out later that they are prone to favoritism, error, and violence. Unlike Aeneas in The Aeneid, A...

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