ABSTRACT
Virgil lived inside of history, and he knew that history gives every individual a different condition in which to live. Virgil Aeneid is the epic poem of Aeneas. The Aeneid was to speak of Rome only indirectly. But from time to time the gods and the hero's father, Anchises, were to exhort Aeneas to make his home in Italy and prepare a great future reign. Virgil's ambition to follow in Homer's footsteps forced him to respect a number of milestones that already marked the trail. The Homeric Hymns are one of the few authentic texts that survive from archaic Greece and one of them recounts the birth of Aeneas. The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, the goddess of love whom the Romans called Venus, recounts her extraordinary power. The image of Aeneas in flight with his father and his son is the central link in the chain of the fathers that held society together.
