... was Virgil, who wrote the Aeneid. Virgil modeled the first six books of his epic after the style of the Odyssey and the rest of the books of the Aeneid after the Illiad, both written by the Greek Homer. Specifically, we 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 ... Aeneas kills Turnus, a Greek-style hero, thus kills that part of himself and separates himself from the Greek-he...

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