... his destiny and do what he has been called to do. Aeneas follows the will of the gods no matter how he suffers. Virgil is greatly influenced by Homer and his epic style of writing. However, he merely uses Homer's style as a guide and successfully creates a Roman style of epic. Virgil does organize his narrative like Homer with long verse narrative, beginning in media ... . Achilles and Aeneas certainly are two excellent examples of that underlying Greek and Roman ideal. In the end of the massive analysis of these two huge epics we would like to say that it is evident that though the two ...

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