The foundations for adventure, adversity and divine intervention are laid by Virgil in the first book of The Aeneid . Virgil offers the reader a summary in the first section of book one by outlining Aeneas' escape from his war ravaged home of Troy and by telling us about the destiny he is trying to...

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Aenied Paper Dido and Turnus both hold significant roles in the Aeneid with their opposing relations of love and hate to Aeneas in his mission. ... Their deaths are necessary to bring closure in an episode in the Aeneid and allow Aeneas to free himself from responsibility with Dido and Turnus so he may found Rome. ... The gods in the Aeneid effect and interfere with their relations to Aeneas. ...

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