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Virgil’s Aeneid is a quintessentially nationalistic epic, written during a troubled time in Rome’s history and Virgil sought to place Rome’s past in the frame of myth by telling the tale of Aeneas and the founding of Rome. A Greek-centred myth, The Aeneid, brought about a new stage in Roman ideology. Virgil brought the present into the past through locations, people and prophecies, the most important of these being the prophecy of the descendents of Aeneas, the future leaders of Rome in Book Six . Family, therefore, takes centre stage in The Aeneid, the appearance of the dynastic line of Aeneas himself being a central event in the book. The various parent/child relationships found throughout the poem shape and drive forward the action of Aeneas’ story, from his escape from Troy with his own father and son, the numerous interventions by his own mother, Venus to the tragic stories of both Evander, his son Pallas, and that of Lausus and his father, Mezentius, whilst also......

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