"The Aeneid" is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. ... The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad, composed in the 8th century BC. Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas' wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous piety, and fashioned this into a compelling founding myth or nation...

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Both the Greek and Roman culture use the name "Apollo " to address his deity, though his Roman counterpart slightly differs from the Greek idea of Apollo. In Roman literature, Apollo was the son of Jupiter and Latona, with his sister Diana. ... The great attributes of Roman Apollo included divination, healing, music and archery, which all manifest to the sun in some way. ... In terms of Roman myths, the most famous is Apollo's quarrel with Jupiter regarding the death of his son, Aesculapius, killed by that deity on the complaint of Pluto. ... Overall, both the Greeks and the Romans see Ap...

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