... and peace. Though the books didn't explicitly describe this part after the end of the story, these portions retroactively laid the setting for the end of their book. And in this sense, The Iliad, though it may have stopped during a time of truce, was the greater tragedy, where The Aeneid, ending with ... , but is merely stating a fact. No matter which way the reader chooses to look it at though, he still knows that the gods are watching and finds out later that they are prone to favoritism, error, and violence. Unlike Aeneas in The Aeneid, Achilles is prone to fits of rage ... the issue o...

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