... a new city and vengeance. Symbols of the epic are flames; the golden bough; the Gates of War; the Trojan hearth gods; weather etc. The events of the epic narrative are already history to the Roman audience. The many dreams and prophecies of various characters reveal a veiled future to mortals and are the epic's strongest form of foreshadowing. Also, when Turnus kills Pallas, Virgil foreshadows Turnus's own death. The Aeneid and Iliad stand at adjacent corners of the world's literature ... . In numerous ways of thought and plot, they are very similar stories. And yet they bear smaller d...

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