Compare Characters Aeneas and Turnus from the Aeneid by Virgil
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This takes place through his methodological approach to the poem; his presentation of Rome as the ruling country of the world and the likeness of himself with the characters in the poem.... It is feelings like these that predestine Vergil to produce great works.... At the cost of some over-simplification, it could be said that, for Vergil, there are four great tracts in particular; the internal mental world, firstly, of personal experience, and, second, of general human experience, which survives in the unconscious mind of every individual, and especially of every poet; and next the outer world, firstly, of the present, of which news is heard in talk or other communication; secondly, in the past, known mainly from books....