![]() ![]() This is followed by the second half of the epic, which is an Iliad-like accounting of the Trojans war with the Latins, a conflict that is even more pointless than the Trojan War because the leaders of both sides both see the same peaceful solution but repeatedly get driven apart by Juno and her minions. The journey's forward momentum begins with Aeneas' trip to the underworld to see his dead father (not quite as dramatic as one might have hoped). ![]() The tragedy of Dido and Aeneas is another largely self-contained book in the first half. Within the first pages the narrator is careful to inform us that the book will culminate in the triumph of Rome, a theme it returns to somewhat didactically throughout.įollowing the opening book, is a second book with an extraordinary and largely self-contained flashback to the haunting fall of Troy, including Aeneas' bitter recriminations about the decision to bring the wooden horse into the city walls and some moving scenes with the ghost of his wife who got separated from him in the shuffle. It begins in media res (not sure of the Latin of this) with the gods fighting about the treatment of Aeneas. ![]() ![]() Show More six books are Odyssey-like and recount Aeneas travels from the fall of Troy, through a variety of islands, to Carthage. ![]()
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