Drances

• book 11
• Gransden calls Drances 'characteristically ambiguous'
• he is an example of how Virgil manipulates our reactions to the characters and never gives us easy answers
• Turnus is the enemy
• he is noble in defending his right to marry the woman he loves
• Aeneas is the Roman hero but is cruel
• Drances talks sense
• he is arrogant and 'all words', according to Turnus