... 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 ... beings (Forman 2015).  Another unchangeable law is the period of limbo that is said to await the souls of the unburied after death. Homer indicates this law by writing of Patroclus' spirit's return to remind Achilles that, until he has been properly buried, he must wander the earth....

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