Scholarship the Aeneid

Burke

Turnus is both the noble man of action (hector) and the selfish lover (paris)

R.D. Williams

Homer's influence on Virgil is significant in the beginning of book six, but non-existent in the end of book six

R.D. Williams

The pageant of unborn Roman heroes which Anchises describes is the most powerful patriotic message in the whole poem

Rutherford

Women, and everyone else, are powerless under the forces of the gods. Turnus is hopeless due to the manipulations of the gods.

Cowan

Father-son relationships and suffering are central to the plot

Gildenhard and Henderson

Camilla is an androgynous monstrosity

Olliensis

The effortlessly virtuous women of the epic, prove their virtue precisely by submitting to the masculine plot of history

Morgan

The effortlessly virtuous women of the epic, prove their virtue precisely by submitting to the masculine plot of history

R.D. Williams

Turnus in many essentials resembles Dido as an obstacle to the divine which must be overcome, yet when he is overcome there is powerful sympathy for him and a feeling of injustice