Virgil closely modeled the Aeneid on Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad. The first six books, which recount Aeneas’s travels after the fall of Troy, resemble the Odyssey, while the final six books, describing Aeneas’s war against the Latins in Italy, echo the Iliad. Virgil adapted these Greek models to create a distinctly Roman national epic.
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