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Essay Galaxy - Fate: Would Homer and Virgil Be The Same Without It?
Fate: Would Homer and Virgil Be The Same Without It?
In Virgil's Aeneid and Homer's Iliad, a picture of the supernatural and
its workings was created. In both works, there is a concept of a fixed order of
events which is called fate. Fate involves two parts. First, there are laws
that govern certain parts of mens' lives, such as human mortality and an
afterlife. Second, fate deals with the inevitable outcome of certain events,
outcomes that cannot be changed by men or gods.
Both Homer and Virgil allude to the existence of unchangeable laws, one
of which is the mortality of human beings. This can be seen by the fact that
character after character dies during war. In Virgil's Aeneid, Aeneas journeys
to Hades to visit his father. During his stay, he talks to a large number of
the warriors that have d....
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