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Essay Galaxy - Virgil The Art Of Imitating Ho
“Oprah, Uma. Uma, Oprah.”1 “Homer, Virgil. Virgil, Homer.” The Aeneid, the greatest Latin
epic of the battles and wanderings of the Trojan hero, Aeneas, and his founding of the ruling line
for the Roman Empire was written by the great Latin poet Virgil. Or so it seems. When one is
reading the Aeneid and has also read both Homeric epics, one can almost instantly see many
parallels between Homer and Virgil. Not only are there parallels in the actual style of writing,
but the most prominent parallels come in the aspects of structure, events, and characterization.
The Aeneid is, in actuality, “... a structural and thematic reworking of both epics of Homer.”2
The Aeneid is clearly modeled in the beginning after the Odyssey while in the end it is modeled
after....
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