Aenied: Aeneas
...om door to door"(Aen. 2:1001) for Creusa, her ghost appeared to him and told to him that she cannot go with him because she was no longer living, but to go back to the family and that a special mission is ahead of him. Personal loss is a tragedy that Aeneas must face as he ventures on to reach is fate. His pious personality is the characteristic that saves his family and leads him on his journey to the future founding of Rome. Every battle that Aeneas fights, is a battle fought for his country. In book II, during his recollection of the end of Troy, he tells Dido that even though he was told to flee, he did stay back for a short while and fight. The reason for this action could be that he could not stand to see the destruction of his home. After his escape of Troy, Aeneas endures journey after journey of disastrous outcomes. His pieta here is what kept him going through the grueling time. As he was telling his heartfelt story to the queen, Dido, she was falling helplessly in love with Aeneas. During the stay at Carthage, the love between Dido and Aeneas bloomed. The stop at the city turns into a yearlong settlement. Jupiter, ruler of the gods, began to get angry because Aeneas is not fulfilling his destiny. He sends out his messenger to scold Aeneas and remind him that he has duties to accomplish. Aeneas must now choose between his fate and his love for Dido. As he fought down his emotion for Dido, Aeneas makes the decision to carry out the gods’ instruction. After making the personal sacrifice of losing Dido to the future of Rome, Aeneas exemplified that he is worthy of the term piety. After he leaves Carthage, he eventually arrives at Cumae where a battle against the Italians breaks out. During the fighting, Aeneas kills many enemies, but one incident glorifies his piety. As he was fighting young Lausus, he "drove his tough sword through the young man’s body"(Aen. 10:1142), the death on his pale face made Aeneas "groan in profound pity… and wrung his own heart" (Aen. 10:1151-1152). After he kills Lausus, Aeneas faces Mezentius, the young dead soldier’s father, and was driven to slay him too. Aeneas kills the father and son duo with pity in his heart as he fights for his country. He does his duty, to fight for his destiny with devoutness to his gods. Aeneas’ duty to the gods exemplifies his piousness. Through his journeys and challenges, he prays to his gods and asks for blessing. He has total devotion to the gods, possibly because of his half divine. With Venus as his mother, she always watches over him, intervenes with trouble to help out her son. In book III, Aeneas prays at a shrine of Apollo to "grant a home and walls to weary men"(Aen. 3:117-118). As Aeneas stays in the home and walls of Carthage, Mercury sent by Jupiter, reminds him...