... Mercury's prodding, causing the heartbroken Dido to kill herself. In the second half, the war between the Trojans and the Latins comes down to a duel between Aeneas and Turnus. Aeneas wins, and, after considering sparing his enemy's life, he decides to kill Turnus to avenge Pallas's death. Themes of the poem are the primacy of fate; the suffering of wanderers and the glory of Rome. Motifs of the poem are prophecies and ... was the greater tragedy, where The Aeneid, ending with mortal combat, was the greater comedy. And where the rest of each book may have replicated the other, this e...

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