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Modeled after Homer's Iliad, the Aeneid follows the Trojan Aeneas as he struggles to fulfill his destiny and arrive on the shores of Italy; in Roman mythology .The purpose of this paper is to compare the central moments in two epic poems. The Iliad was composed as part of the lore of oral, while the Aeneid is a literary composition. The two epics are built around the story of the Trojan War. The Iliad denotes Greek gods while the Aeneid adapts the Roman ones. Virgil uses many of the same image conventions that Homer uses in The Iliad.This paper will deliberate some of the main issues, ideas and techniques contained in the two books and analyse the similarities and difference between them. One crucial fact to take into consideration is that Virgil had an intimate knowledge of Homer's epics and made much use of them when composing the Aeneid.

In the Aeneid and Homeric epics the Iliad, one can almost instantly see many analogies between Homer and Virgil. Not only are there analogies in the actual style of writing, but also the most eye-catching analogies come in the aspects of structure, events, and characterization. Both epics are centralized on the exploits of a man who is half mortal and half God. In the Iliad, Achilleus, the Greek hero, who is consumes with honor, is the principal point of the narrative. In the Aeneid, Aeneas, the roman hero whose comprehension of honor is obligated in his duty to his people, is the focal characte

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