![]() ![]() The main character Aeneas along with the other characters depicted in the poem has to face his weakness as a human being at the face of super human deities and the ill fate prepared for him from above.įinally, the theme of the world’s redivision can be also explored in the poem’s prelude. The reader can see this tendency in the following words, for example: “he was battered beneath the violence of High Ones” (Virgil 1). The reader is constantly impelled to think over the great and exalted position of gods who affect human life to the extent they want. Secondly, the theme of divine can be also explored both in the prelude and all over the poem. Singing and praising mighty men of arms, this is what the reader is to expect on every page of the poem (Virgil 1). “I sing of arms and of a man”, read the first words of the poem’s prologue showing the main theme tendency of the whole opus. The cult of human power, mightiness and grandeur was prevailing in those cultures. This theme is very common for Greek and Roman literature and art, in general. ![]() First of all, the theme of heroism during endless wars of ancient times aimed for repartition of the world comes through the whole poem as the main canvas. ![]() Examining the poem, a row of the main themes can be noticed. ![]()
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