Greeks

• depicted on the Carthiginians' temple and in reality in book 2
• that are perfidious and murderous
• he presents the Trojans as naive when faced with the trickery of 'the arts of Greece; and all their strategems
• there is a shift in the perception of the Greeks later on
• Evander is from Arcadia and a Greek
• Aeneas is aware of this, but considers their bond through courage, holy oracles of the gods, and the kinship of their fathers, to be more binding
• they now have a common enemy in Mezentius
• book 6 - Anchises, looking into the future, pronounces that the Romans will govern the peoples of the world
• 'others' (i.e. Greeks) will excel in sculpture and rhetoric
• the enemy of the future for Aeneas' Trojans is not Greece, but Carthage
• perhaps Virgil is voicing here the reconciliation of the Augustan age with their former enemies