Brooks Otis, “Unlike Turnus, Nisus, Euryalus or Camilla,
Aeneas does not succumb to the lust of plunder”
Brooks Otis “Aeneas is the only
hero of the Aeneid who looks ahead from war to peace”
Brooks Otis “Virgil is trying to depict
a character upon whom romans of his day could model themselves”
WIlliams “Turnus is in every way
a Homeric hero”
Steinbrenner “Augustus used it to
compel the literary minds of his time to further his political agenda”