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Is it appropriate to describe Virgil Aeneid book four as a tragedy?
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Jessica Bain AWS Year 2 Latin Literature Essay 1 February 15, 2004 Is it appropriate to describe Virgil Aeneid book four as a tragedy? The Aeneid as written by Virgil is the great epic of one man who followed his destiny. He was both aided and hindered in his travels by the gods who watched his movements with great interest. But Aeneas was a hero, he understood what he was fated to do, what destiny needed fulfilling and despite great set backs, of war and loss, Aeneas forges on to complete his task of founding Rome. The Aeneid is in certain respects a poem of tragedy, of what must be lost to regain anything more and in the first books of the poem this loss is focused on. The destruction of Troy, the ruin of a city and of the honorable men within, a city that held against the sons of Atreus for ten years but...
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