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Classical epic 2

“Life without Adventure is No Life at All.”

Many Greek and Roman writers arrange characters and plots in their epics which will intrigue the audience. These plots compile various types of adventures such as either fighting in a war or trying to trick a mythological god. AENEID written by Virgil exhibits how traveling is an adventure, especially when someone doesn’t know where they are going when their home was burn and they become the leaders in a narrative aspect. Aeneas, the major character in AENEID had to endure such a horrendous task. Aeneas along with many other classical epic heroes had to go through various adventures of traveling with oneself and the sea in order to stay alive. Luckily they obtained much more. Along with fulfilling their fate and various messages from the gods, Aeneas found himself and how to venture the sea.

The fall of Troy was the begging of the adventures of Aeneas and his fleece. Aeneas lived in Troy and was one of the prominent warriors of the war. The Greeks bestowed a wooden horse as gift to the Trojans for lament to their goddess. Little did the Trojans known was that they were being tricked by the Greeks with the wooden horse. Inside the horse’s belly was the Greeks best warriors, these warrior gotten out of the horses belly and fought within troy’s army, killing many of troy’s soldiers and King Priam. After attempting to battle Aeneas figured out that he and many others had to flee Troy in order to escape death. Aeneas and many others went to the coast of aneder and built many ships. While building these fleeces Aeneas figured that he had to take charge and become a leader and learned

lessons of life for himself. Which were composed of learning how to trust the gods in whatever the advice or endeavor may be. For instance, when the fleece landed on a land called Thrace. Aeneas and his fleece tried to build a new city on the coast of Thrace yet plague was brought upon them because they were...