Jiang argues that readers who see the Aeneid ending as merely abrupt or unfinished are missing the intended full ending.
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Aeneid Ending
Jiang says the Aeneid's final killing is the poem's epiphany: Aeneas no longer needs the gods to correct him because he has internalized piety.
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Jiang says the Aeneid's final killing is the poem's epiphany: Aeneas no longer needs the gods to correct him because he has internalized piety.
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"I can let him go. I've won, okay? And that's what he wants to do. He just wants to let him go. But this..."
"And that's it. This is the ending of the Aenead. And again, scholars are confused by this. Like, how could the epic end like..."
"Each time this happened previously, the gods had to intervene, right? So remember how Aeneas is back in Troy and he's witnessed the killing..."
"You must fulfill the mission. Again, when Aeneas is with Dido, he just wants to stay with Dido and build up Carthage. And so..."
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