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What Evidence is there in The Aeneid Book 1 that Virgil is an innovator rather than a plagiarist of Homer?
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What Evidence is there in The Aeneid Book 1 that Virgil is an innovator rather than a plagiarist of Homer? The two epic tales (written as songs to be sung by a muse as stories) both have several similarities. This does not necessarily mean that Virgil has in any way copied any of the material. However, with both the era and the some of the characters being the same it would be unfair to suggest that anything said or referred to in both the Odyssey and the Aeneid is merely accidental and or coincidental. Virgil attempts to reproduce the epic style that the ancient Greek poet Homer established by invoking the muse at the opening of his poem, "Tell me, Muse, the causes of her anger." A similar invocation begins both the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Homeric epics that seem to be the models for Virgil's epic, and the...
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