Characters

• Mortal Characters JEG Zetzel

  "the contrast between the civilised Trojans and barbarous Italians dissolves on closer inspection"
• David Ross (Characters)

  We like our heroes to have humanity as well as greatness, "to be human is to experience failure and suffer defeat."
• Kenneth Quinn (Heroic Characters)

  Virgil sometimes encourages us to feel that the heroic, brave, self-sacrificing ideal is not always best. E.g. Priam, Dido, Turnus, who could have all avoided death by being less heroic.
• R.D. Williams (Characters)

  furor is "the chief failing of humans".
• Richard Jenkyns (Characters)


  "His (Virgil) poetry has room for a wide range of men and women because, after all, he is interested in the diversity of the world and the diversity of the people that it contains."