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Aeneid

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The Aeneid: the journey

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task. Virgil, Aeneid Roman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC)

Read Virgil's The Aeneid , with particular references to Books 1, 2, 4, 6.

Study:

the plot;
the characters of the poem;
the functions of the gods;
the theme of Rome's world mission.

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