Comment on the juxtaposition of Æneas and Turnus as heroic figures in Virgil's The Æneid.
In
The Aeneid, Virgil introduces the post-Homeric epic, an epic that immortalizes
both a hero's glory and the foundation of a people. The scope of the Aeneid can
be paralleled to the scope of the Oresteia of Aeschylus, which explores the
origins of a social institution, the Areopagus of Athens, and presents this
origin as coinciding with a shift from the archaic matriarchal society ruled by
the ties of blood to a civilized patriarchal society ruled by a court of law.
Likewise, in the Aeneid, the founding of a civilization carries its own
destructive consequence: the symbolic death of Turnus, and with it, the passing
of an entire way of being. Virgil offers Turnus as a foil to Aeneas, in
character and in culture, and Turnus's death, though relayed with compassion,
is necessary to effect this transition from an archaic past to the creation of
the Roman civilization.
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