- Who was Virgil?
- What do you suppose prompted him to write the Aeneid?
- Why did he choose to pattern his epic after Homer's Iliad and Odyssey?
- How does Virgil's context help to clarify how Augustus ushered in the era of the Pax Romana?
- How does the Aeneid compare to what we learned about the Greeks' national epics (Illiad and Odyssey) in Module Two?
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