Aeneas the son of a mortal Trojan Prince Anchises and the goddess Venus, Aeneas has valiantly defended Troy until the Greeks burned it down after ten years of war. "O Queen! By Heaven ordained to found This city, and curb the unruly tribes with law! Thee we poor Trojans, blown o'er every sea, Implore. O save our ships from shameless fire!"(I. 14) Aeneas rapidly keeps asking Gods for to help him and his group out. Aeneas is pictured in the Iliad where he is rescued repeatedly by the gods. His depiction in this tale is a little more noble. Aeneas is empowered by the gods with the task of leading the Trojan refugees from their destroyed city to Italy where they will make the beginning of an empire. His s

Fire symbolizes both destruction and erotic desire or love. With images of flames, Virgil connects the two. Paris's desire for Helen eventually leads to the fires of the siege of Troy. When Dido confesses her love for Aeneas to Anna, her sister, she begins, "I recognize and the signs

In concluding the characterization, setting, theme, plot, and symbolism are all needed criteria parts to analyzing this novel. Virgil intended the Aeneid to be a justification of Rome's greatness. He wanted to

of the old flame, of old desire" (IV.58-59). Dido also recalls her previous marriage in "the thought of the torch and the bridal bed" (IV.58). Torches limit the power of flames by controlling them, but the new love ignited in Dido's heart is never regulated by the institution of marriage, "the bridal bed." The flames she feels do not keep her warm but rather consume her mind. Virgil describes the way she dies in the synonymous terms "enflamed and driven mad" (IV.65).

The Aeneid takes place in the aftermath of the Trojan War, about 1000 B.C., this Roman epic traces the journey of the last Trojan warrior Aeneas. After the fall of Troy, Aeneas is entrusted the task of founding a new city in

Within the Aeneid, there are many themes contained in the text. One of them is the The Sufferings of Wanderers. "Where drift my mind so oft by madness warped?" (XII. 228) The first half of the Aeneid tells the story of the Trojans' wanderings as they make their way from Troy to Italy. Ancient culture was oriented toward familial loyalty and geographic origin, and stressed the idea that a homeland is one's source of identity. Because homelessness implies instability of both situation and identity, it is a form of suffering in and of itself. But Virgil adds to the sufferings of the wandering Trojans by putting them at the mercy of forces larger than themselves. On the sea, their fleet buffeted by frequent storms, the Trojans must repeatedly decide on a course of action in an uncertain world. The Trojans also feel disoriented each time they land on an unknown shore or learn where they are without knowing whether it is the place where they belong. As an experience that, from the point of view of the Trojans, is uncertain in every way, the long wanderings at sea serve as a metaphor for the kind of wandering that is characteristic of life in general. We and Virgil's Roman audience know what fate has in store for the Trojans, but the wandering characters themselves do not. Because these ind

Some common words found in the essay are:
Queen Heaven, IV58 Torches, Italy Ancient, Italy Aeneas, Aeneas Turnus, Trojan War, Dido Phoenician, Venus Aeneas, Meanwhile Ascanius, Trojans Italy, italy aeneas, valiantly defended troy, aeneas valiantly defended, analyzing novel, valiantly defended, defended troy, trojan war, aeneas returns, prince anchises goddess, aeneas valiantly, anchises goddess venus, found city, goddess venus aeneas, aeneas relates, epic traces,
Approximate Word count = 1673
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)