the Homeric hero

• he is mortal
• he is high born
• he is helped/hindered by the gods
• physically impressive
• ferocious when he fights
• a leader
• like Achilles, Aeneas is the hero fighting in a foreign land
• like Hector, he has the gods of Troy to protect
• like Paris, he is mocked for his effeminate dress
• like Odysseus, he is a traveller who has arrived 'home' to conflict with a suitor
• book 10 - he is capable of behaving with the same bloodlust as Nisus and Euryalus
• like Achilles, he selects prisoners to be sacrificed on his friend's funeral pyre