... just a little over seven centuries younger than the Iliad and the Odyssey. The Aeneid written by Virgil, the best known of Roman poets. Shortly after finishing Georgics, a long poem on farming, he began his masterwork, the Aeneid, the story of the founding of Rome. The Aeneid took eleven years to complete, and even then Virgil did not consider the epic fit for publication. At ... the structure is unconventional in that Aeneas is not the absolute dominant in the story. From the very beginning of the poem, when Aeneas flees Troy, thus tying back to Homer and the Greeks, his character seem...

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... brought out in the epic poem, The Odyssey. Odysseus was betrayed by his men. For example, "Such was their talk, and the ill counsel of the crew prevailed, they loosed the sack, and out rushed all the winds" (Homer92). Due to the crew's greed, they caused both Odysseus and themselves to be blown ... away from their native land. They could have simply asked Odysseus what was in the bag instead of finding out for themselves. Another example could be, "So spoke Eurylochus; the rest assented. ... Ah sir, consider now your native land, if you are destined ever to be saved and reach your stat...

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... will be looking at the differences and comparisons with which Virgil borrows upon the style and workings of these more prominent works of Homer. One of the more discerning features of the Aeneid is that unlike the Odyssey and the Illiad who focus primarily it's heroes (Achilles and Odysseus), the Aeneid focuses more on Rome rather than it's hero, Aeneas. Such focus is evident by ... the focusing upon boundaries also at the same time symbolizes not only the physical nation of Rome, but also its cultural aspects (The story of Romulus and Remus, for example), reinforcing Rome's greater imp...

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... it is absolutely possible for later works to be just as substantial as earlier works. The Aeneid is not a mere plagiarism of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. It's true that Aeneas' wanderings in the beginning of the poem are reminiscent of the same perils that Odysseus faced on his journey home to Ithaca, such as Aeneas' encounter with the Harpies (3:245) and the Cyclopes (3:760). Aeneas ... then struggles 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 ... ...

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... the Aeneid is weather. The gods use weather to express their will. Bin the beginning of the poem it says, "Across the lands and waters he was battered beneath the violence of High Ones, for the savage Juno's unforgetting anger" (1). When Juno sends a storm in the beginning of the poem, it is symbolizing her rage. She looks to keep Aeneas lost at sea. This alludes ... back to the Odyssey and how Poseidon kept trying to stray Odysseus away from his destination. But weather is not always used to show the negative. Venus bids the sea god ... , Neptune, to protect them because she has affect...

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