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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
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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..."
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"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..."
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"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..."
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"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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