Virgil's Aeneid

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he notices that Turnus is wearing the sword belt of
Pallas and the stoic ways of Aeneas leave him as rage, fury, and anger run
through his body. He kills Turnus in anger and dedicates his death to Pallas.
This loss of control and act of violence is the opposite of stoicism and the way
Aeneas had been portrayed the rest of the epic.
Turnus has to die for the founding of Rome to occur but he should not
have been killed in such a way. The killing was payback for the dishonorable
way that Pallas was killed. The sword belt had images that reflect Augustinian
Rome as did the shield in book eight. The theft of the belt from Pallas can be
compared to the stolen helmet and the youth slain when his guard was down and
greed had taken over. All if this represents the theme of greed and each
incident resulted in death of the thief.
Another problem that the last book of the Aeneid provided for the
readers was how the last scene was written in relation to the rest of the epic.
At the ...

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during the fall of
Troy. This is not necessary a bad thing because the he has ahead of him needs a
strong man and the occurrences throughout the book actually made him the man
that the founding of Rome required him to be.
The third problem that appears in the final act of Aeneas is that his
actions are really not like him at all and is not consistent with the character
which is shown in the rest of the epic. I feel that for the founding of Rome to
occur Turnus had to die but Turnus did not have to die the way he did. If
Turnus did live he would have been a constant nuisance and a trouble maker. He
would have also posed a constant threat to the life of Aeneas. The fact that ...

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