Like seemingly everyone seemed to have picked up, the Aeneid shares MANY similarities with the Odyssey. However, the way this seemed to present itself to me most obviously was in the way the gods acted. The spite and revenge of one god(ess) on the hero, but shock of all shocks, the hero is destined by fate to prevail, which puts a damper on the vengeful plans said deity had in store.
However the real question is why the similarities? I don't think that simple plagiarism is a good enough reason. Then I wondered if maybe it was because of the setting. Because this story is set to run parallel to that of Odysseus (here called Ulysses), it could serve as a reminder of sequence? I really have no idea.
P. S. I commented on Jeremy Beaman's post
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