The fleet, led by Aeneas, is on a voyage to find a second home. This is consistent with her role throughout the Homeric epics.Īlso in the manner of Homer, the story proper begins in medias res, with the Trojan fleet in the eastern Mediterranean, heading in the direction of Italy. He then explains the reason for the principal conflict in the story: the resentment held by the goddess Juno against the Trojan people.

Virgil begins his poem with a statement of his theme ( Arma virumque cano., 'I sing of arms and of a man.') and an invocation to the Muse, falling some seven lines after the poem's inception: ( Musa, mihi causas memora., 'O Muse, recount to me the causes.'). The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas' wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous piety, and fashioned this into a compelling founding myth or nationalist epic that at once tied Rome to the legends of Troy, glorified traditional Roman virtues and legitimized the Julio-Claudian dynasty as descendants of the founders, heroes and gods of Rome and Troy. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas' wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.

It is composed of roughly 12,000 lines in dactylic hexameter. The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem written by Virgil in the late 1st century BC (29–19 BC) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.

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