In a brief essay of 300 words, discuss the following question.

Compare Virgil’s Aeneid to Homer’s Iliad. In what ways are they similar and in what ways are they not? How does Homer’s “agenda” differ from that of Virgil? For comparison, cite examples from the excerpts of the Iliad and the Aeneid in our book.

the book is Janetta Rebold Benton and Robert DiYanni, Arts and Culure: An Introduction to the Humanities, Volume 1 (4th edition).

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Aeneid and Iliad are epic poems of heroic main characters written by Virgil and Homer, respectively. The two poems are similar in that they talk about the journeys made by heroes after the Trojan War. For both heroes, they faced distractions that delayed them. For example, Aeneas, together with his followers, were thrown …