Virgil begins and ends the Aeneid with parallels to the Iliad of Homer. ... Similarly, Homer writes in the Iliad, "Thetis of the silver feet came to the house of Hephaestus" (Il. 18: 369). ... Through these differences, Virgil attempt to surpass the Iliad and express Roman values at the same time. ... Virgil believes that the future is more important than the present and therefore views this characteristic of a hero superior to those seen in the Iliad. ... By analyzing the shield scenes of the two epic poems, the Iliad and the Aeneid, many similarities as well as differences can be distingu...

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Other examples include the Greek accusative "paeana" perhaps picking up Achilles speech to the Greeks after the death of Hector in Iliad 22.365 a particularly apt epic reference in this instance. Further to this is Vergil's probable adaptation of Homer's sleep of bronze (Iliad 11.241). Connington also points out the similarity between lines 734-735 and Iliad 7.243 indeed Mezentius" victim Orodes has forecast the imminent fatality of his slayer just as Hector did to Achilles and indeed is met with the same abrupt dismissal, and again 736 with Iliad 16. 862-863 where the failing Patro...

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The Aeneid is not a mere plagiarism of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. ... The latter half of the Aeneid resembles the Iliad as war, spurred on by Juno, breaks out between the Trojans and the Latins in book VII and Turnus summons his warriors to defend their home (7:562) as Paris did at Troy. ...

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