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Originally Posted by hidari
I like the Aeneid...but many seem to put it on a second tier....
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I think the Aeneid as a wonderful poem, but I guess that some people perhaps feel that it's slightly "derivative"? Virgil deliberately set out to write a "Roman Epic" basically
because Rome had never had a "Homer", and he wanted to show "anything the Greeks can do, we can do better".