I'm adding to Kelli's idea: THERE ARE SO MANY SIMILARITIES. Venus is disguising herself just as Athena did. I'm still trying to figure out how Aeneas recognized his mother as she walked away... That seems odd. As I discussed in my comment on Kelli's, there are similarities in the actions of the soldiers as they land at Carthage and those of Odysseus' men. Both feast and drink! Along with those, Aeneas and Odysseus have keen similarities. Both are solid leaders and have the trust of their men. Why is the story line of the the Odyssey so closely related to the Aeneid? What was Virgil trying to accomplish or prove by this? I think it could be that he wished he were Greek.
P.s. - Kelli's
I think I'll add to this vein as well.
ReplyDeleteI was reading it the exact same way. I kept seeing similarities to the Odyssey and it does seem weird that Virgil would copy Homer so closely. Was he maybe trying to kept with story lines that his readers were used to or was he just really unoriginal?
ReplyDeleteVirgil, could have been trying to write to what was already there. Why reinvent the wheel when you and add an axle and make it a car.
ReplyDeleteI wondered the same thing! It seemed odd to write another poem so similar to an existing one. Even more odd that they would both become so famous...
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