When Virgil controls the narration, the point of view includes the actions of the gods as well as the human story; Aeneas, in his storytelling, does not have this access to the gods' perspective and relates events only from his own perspective. ... Symbols of the epic are flames; the golden bough; the Gates of War; the Trojan hearth gods; weather etc. ... They were both the offspring of humanity and deity, and thus demanded the special attention of the gods. For this reason, too, the gods bickered fiercely over the outcome of the war. ... Each followed the path of a hero forced through ...

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