The Aeneid

Virgil · 19 BCE · Poem · Roman · Classical

Fleeing the sack of Troy with his father on his back and his household gods in hand, Aeneas is driven across the Mediterranean toward a country he has never seen. A queen of Carthage takes him in, and he is called away again into a war in Italy against the people whose land he is fated to settle. Duty over desire, written to give Rome a Homeric past.

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Lineage

• influenced by ↑ The Iliad
  Homer · c. 750 BCE · Poem
• influenced by ↑ The Odyssey
  Homer · c. 725 BCE · Poem
• ↓ The Divine Comedy
  Dante · c. 1320 CE · Poem — influenced by this
• ↓ The Tempest
  William Shakespeare · c. 1611 CE · Play — influenced by this
• ↓ Paradise Lost
  John Milton · 1667 CE · Poem — influenced by this
• ↓ Antony and Cleopatra
  William Shakespeare · c. 1607 CE · Play — alludes to this
• ↓ Heroides
  Ovid · c. 15 BCE · Poem — responds to this
• ↓ The Rape of the Lock
  Alexander Pope · 1714 CE · Poem — modeled on this
• ↓ Andromaque
  Jean Racine · 1667 CE · Play — influenced by this
• ↓ Seeing Things
  Seamus Heaney · 1991 CE · Poem — adapts this
• ↓ Arms and the Man
  George Bernard Shaw · 1894 CE · Play — takes its title from this
• ↓ Dido, Queen of Carthage
  Christopher Marlowe · c. 1594 CE · Play — adapts this
• ↓ The House of Fame
  Chaucer · c. 1380 CE · Poem — alludes to this
• ↓ Amelia
  Henry Fielding · 1751 CE · Novel — modeled on this
• ↓ The Faerie Queene
  Edmund Spenser · 1590 CE · Poem — influenced by this
• ↓ The Lusiads
  Luís de Camões · 1572 CE · Poem — modeled on this

Attributes

Closest analogues

• The Ramayana
  Valmiki · c. 400 BCE · Poem

  53% · 16 shared
  PoemEpicDuty & HonorExile & HomecomingHeroRuler / KingVoyage and ReturnHero's JourneyCall to AdventureFall–Rise (Man in a Hole)Home / ReturnThe JourneyFirevs Fate / GodsEpicMythic
• Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
  Mande oral epic · c. 1250 CE · Poem

  53% · 16 shared
  PoemEpicDuty & HonorExile & HomecomingFreedom vs FateHeroRuler / KingHero's JourneyCall to AdventureFall–Rise (Man in a Hole)Home / ReturnThe Journeyvs Fate / Godsvs PersonEpicMythic
• The Mahabharata
  Vyasa (attrib.) · c. 400 BCE · Poem

  48% · 14 shared
  PoemEpicWarDuty & HonorWar & ViolenceFreedom vs FateHeroRuler / KingThe JourneyFirevs Fate / Godsvs PersonEpicMythic
• The Siege of Numantia
  Cervantes · c. 1585 CE · Play

  46% · 12 shared
  WarDuty & HonorWar & ViolenceFreedom vs FateSacrificeHeroRuler / KingFirevs Fate / Godsvs PersonEpicTragic
• Sri Ramayana Darshanam
  Kuvempu · 1949 CE · Poem

  44% · 13 shared
  PoemEpicDuty & HonorExile & HomecomingSacrificeHeroRuler / KingThe SeaFirevs Fate / Godsvs PersonEpicMythic
• The Battles of Coxinga
  Chikamatsu Monzaemon · 1715 CE · Play

  42% · 10 shared
  Duty & HonorExile & HomecomingWar & ViolenceSacrificeHeroRuler / KingCall to AdventureThe Seavs PersonEpic