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A 5 page look at these two heroes of Homer's Iliad and Vergil's Aeneid, respectively, in terms of the cultures that created them. The paper asserts that these heroes are very different because their respective cultures valued different traits. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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ideas which fit their agenda and improving on those that didnt. They also adapted certain modes of Greek literature, such as the epic, to their own use. However, the Greek
mind and the Roman mind were extremely different, and thus the way the Romans adapted Greek ideas reflects these differences. Nowhere is this more evident than in contrasting two martial
epics -- the Greek Iliad and the Roman Aeneid. . However, in order to understand the differences between these works and put them into perspective, it is necessary
to provide a little background into the Greek and Roman cultures themselves. The "golden age" of the Greek civilization flourished during the fifth century B.C., and Greece was already crumbling
when it was taken over as part of the Roman Empire. While the apex of Greek civilization produced both the flowering of democracy and its greatest literature, the Roman Empire
per se was never democratic. Rome in its most brilliant and characteristic period, the first century BC to the earliest years of the Christian era, was ruled by one man,
Augustus Caesar. He knew that he was running the state like a dictatorship, but he felt that things would run more smoothly and with less dissension if he had
ultimate control, where there could be no arguments. Although all power was concentrated in the hands of a single ruler, Roman citizenship was extended to all free men throughout
the Empire, and Roman law was administered in every court. The resulting uniformity was called the "pax romana" -- the Roman Peace -- or the Peace of Augustus, since it
was largely through Augustus efforts that it came about. Augustus rule initiated a period of peace and prosperity such as the world had never known. Nonetheless, during
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