Rising action of the poem is Hector's assault on the Achaean ships; the return of Patroclus to combat; the death of Patroclus. ... Virgil died in 19 B.C., before he finished revising The Aeneid; it was published after his death. ... Aeneas wins, and, after considering sparing his enemy's life, he decides to kill Turnus to avenge Pallas's death. ... Also, when Turnus kills Pallas, Virgil foreshadows Turnus's own death. ... Their paths would be guided not by normal order, and not by the consequences of their actions, but by the directing of fate. ...

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• Grade Level: High School