... and Turnus summons his warriors to defend their home (7:562) as Paris did at Troy. At first all of these similarities may appear to be a poorly veiled appropriation of Homer's epics, but that is far from the actual purpose of Virgil's epic. Virgil seeks to reveal the true reason for the Trojan War and Aeneas' journey to Italy to found the ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate