Friday, April 19, 2013

I need a summary of Vergil's Aeneid. Please, help me.

After the fall of Troy,
Aeneas, his father, and a handful of survivors sail away in the hope of establishing a
new city.


Eventually, the
hatred of the goddess Juno for the Trojans leads to a shipwreck that causes Aeneas to be
washed ashore in Dido's kingdom of
Carthage.


Not to be outdone,
goddess Venus causes Dido to fall in love with Aeneas and for some time the two dally in
love in Carthage.


Enraptured
by love, Aeneas is reminded by the gods of his destiny to found Rome and they urge him
to leave Dido, who kills herself out of grief and
anger.


Impelled by the gods
and destiny to Italy, Aeneas goes to the underworld to learn what he must do to found
the Roman race.


Death, the
terrible death of a new ally, Pallas, leads Aeneas to a final showdown with Turnus, whom
Aeneas kills in revenge for Turnus' killing of Pallas.

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