Why Did People Fall In Love With Aeneas

33. When Aeneas was shipwrecked in Carthage, they went to the queen to seek help. Cupid knew that he could make the queen fall in love with Aeneas, so that Aeneas’s descendants would rule a vast empire in the new land. Dido, the Queen of Carthage, welcomed him and his company and treated them to a banquet, because she knew how it felt to be homeless and lost in a foreign city. With help from Cupid, Dido fell in love with Aeneas during the banquet. Dido gave Aeneas many lavish gifts and only asked for his love in return. For a long period of time, Dido wasted time in comfort and luxury. This all changed one day when a voice told him that the ruler of the heavens wanted him to leave and find a different kingdom. Dido had given everything to him,
The ancient Greeks believed that the Underworld was where the souls of the dead went after they died. All people, whether they did right or wrong, went to the underworld. Minos would judge the souls and would send them to Hades for punishment, if necessary. Later, the souls would take shape of their former bodies. In Christianity, which is currently the most common religion in the world, it is believed that there is life after death, but only people that have done wrong would go to hell, which is beneath the world. If people have lived without sins, they would go to heaven, which is above the world. These similarities and differences may have come because some of the ideas of Christianity may have been adopted from the ancient religions, while other ideas were original. Overall, these ideas were fundamental to their beliefs on the meaning of life.
36. The Elysian Fields was a part of the underworld where everything was pleasant and the people lived happily. The people that dwelled in the Elysian Fields were people that were exemplary and did many good deeds during their lifetime. The people that did good deeds during their lifetime was put into the Elysian Fields, because it was how they would be rewarded for helping others and making good choices in their life. In the underworld, the people that committed sins were punished and the people that did not commit sins were rewarded. For this reason, people were sent to the Elysian Fields as a
The story of Agamemnon’s death that was told in the Odyssey states that he died when Aegisthus, who loved his wife, invited him to a feast and killed him, so that he could marry Agamemnon's wife. Another story, written by Aeschylus, stated that when he returned home from Troy after the Trojan War, he brought his wife and Cassandra, a captive Trojan princess to the House of Atreus. There, his wife killed him to avenge for the death of Iphigenia. With my knowledge of the Ancient Greeks, I believe that the story that is written by Aeschylus is more credible than the story in the Odyssey, because in the story that is told in the Odyssey, Aegisthus would be breaking the bonds between host and guest, which were very important to the Ancient Greeks.
40. The stories in this chapter teach that whatever goes around, comes around. All of the people that were in these stories committed a cruel or defiant act and later received punishments in return for those acts. The human traits that the Greeks condemned were being barbaric and uncooperative towards the gods and other people. Conversely, the human traits that they admired was self-restraint. As shown in these stories, the people that defied the gods or had too much pride in themselves were punished, like Niobe or Atreus. In other cases, people that practiced self-restraint were successful in their