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AENEAS A DEVOTED HERO
Title: AENEAS A DEVOTED HERO
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1039 | Pages: 4.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
AENEAS A DEVOTED HERO
Aeneas, the Devoted Hero
In Virgil’s Aenied, he illustrates the hero and central character, Aeneas, as a man who presents piety and duty. This human emotion piety, pietas in Latin, is duty towards family, country, and gods. Aeneas always fulfills his duty to his family, his fated city, and his gods. This piousness is what keeps him going through the grueling journeys and challenges, even when things are not going perfectly. Pietas is the …showed first 75 words of 1039 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1039 total…he has for his family, the devotion of reaching his fate of finding the new city, and the duty to his gods as he ventures through his mission. His pietas was confirmed when he put aside his heart to comply with the wills of the gods. Virgil idealizes Aeneas as a model of great leadership, firm on his beliefs, but also a compassionate person. He is a symbol of the great Roman virtues of pietas.
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