Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid
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## Contents

- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Epic poetry and the Aeneid
  - 1.1 Epic poetry before Virgil
  - 1.2 Virgil and his predecessors
  - 1.3 Politics and Roman identity
- 2 A brief summary of the Aeneid
- 3 Roman values in the Aeneid
  - 3.1 What is pietas?
  - 3.2 Pietas vs furor
  - 3.3 Aeneas and pietas
  - 3.4 A conflicted hero
- 4 Book 12 of the Aeneid
  - 4.1 The death of Turnus
  - 4.2 Vengeance and mercy in the Aeneid
- Conclusion
- References
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements

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