Posted by Roark on November 22, 1998 at 19:26:29:
In Reply to: HELP ON AENEID posted by marc on November 14, 1998 at 15:57:31:
: i need help to write a two page report on a theme of any book in the aeneid
Okay here is the easiest thing to write on...In the book I hink II when aeneas recounts
the razing of troy write a paper on how Aeneas was from a warrior society where glory and honr were the
most important hing... well he chooses duty over glory... this was is unlike a warrior society
it was aeneas' duty to flee troy and found the city that would one day be rome... this was his destiny...
The glorioous thing to have done would have been to stay and fight and die a glorious death fighting the greeks
but Aeneas chose to flee and fulfill his duty, it is basically the idea of duty vs glory
there are a number of points to be made in the recounting of his tale...
I just wrote a 5 page paper on this very same thing.. hope this helps!