... to safely colonize the Trojans in Italy upon his arrival which mirrors Odysseus' rocky homecoming and slaughter of Penelope's suitors. The latter half of the Aeneid resembles the Iliad as war, spurred on by Juno, breaks out between the Trojans and the Latins in book VII and Turnus summons his warriors to ... seeks to reveal the true reason for the Trojan War and Aeneas' journey to Italy to found the predecessor to Rome. He explains through the Aeneid that the underlying purpose for the Trojan War and the life of Aeneas has finally been fulfilled with the reign of Augustus in which the ....

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... , he made many detours in his journey home for leisure and luxury. The whole theme of The Odyssey celebrates the abilities of the individual, which contradicts the theme of The Aeneid, holding truth to being "duty bound" to the state. In The Odyssey: XI A GATHERING OF SHADES, Odysseus's mother, dead in the underworld speaks this: "All mortals meet this judgment when ... body" says that "Dis" is the Roman name for Greek Hades, god of the underworld. It is also fascinating to see "the swamp of Styx" mentioned and described in The Aeneid, a hellish place obviously adopted by Dante thirteen ...

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