‘There are tears for suffering’ Aeneid 1.462. Show how Virgil conveys the pathos of suffering in the Aeneid. To what extent is a sympathetic vision of life evident in Homer’s Odyssey?

... 'There are tears for suffering' Aeneid 1.462. Show how Virgil conveys the pathos of suffering in the Aeneid. To what extent is a sympathetic vision of life evident in Homer's Odyssey? Above all else, the Odyssey is a moral poem, where the guilty are punished and the good are exulted. No loose ends or unfinished business obstruct our certainty that all those involved have received their just deserts. Due to the lack of tragedy in the Odyssey, it was Aristotle that labelled it a 'comedy'. However, the Aeneid is a far more complex arrangement of characters, many of which perish for the glory of Rome to be realised. The constant and unalterable question hanging in the background throughout the poem is whether duty and honour overrides all this tragedy. Is the Roman race really worth all this inflicted pain? The future of the Romans is secured by the end

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