Similarities Between The Iliad And The Aeneid

Throughout all of history people have written and documented stories or their own version of specific events. In ancient Europe not everyone possessed the means to read and write so when something was written it possessed a certain sense of strong meaning and truthfulness, whether or not the story was fabricated. I believe two of the most well-known stories that reflect this are The Iliad and The Aeneid. These stories were considered epics or “poems telling of an adventure of a legendary person.” Even though the stories differ by context and plot I believe that they are, in certain literary means, two of the same stories. We can arrive at this assumption by looking at a few similar traits that follow throughout both stories. Everything was