Odysseus and Aeneas are characters created by Homer and Virgil. Homer’s character and story was constructed about eight hundred years prior to Virgil’s, but both stories center around one thing. The Trojan War and what happened after the fall of Troy is the basis for what happens in both stories. On the winning side you have Odysseus, and on the losing side you have Aeneas. This can be paralleled by the authors of these epics. Homer is a Greek which is the winning side, and Virgil the Roman is on the losing side. The Odyssey features Odysseus who is a Greek warrior that is trying to make his way home after a triumphant victory against the Trojans. The Aeneid features Aeneas who is trying to find a new home after the destruction of Troy. Both of these characters have something in common here; they are brave warriors that are trying to find their way home. There are some immense differences between the two though. The crafty Odysseus’s devises plans that involve cunning and plotting. He …show more content…
Odysseus needs to return to his wife and son in Ithaca. Odysseus has been away from them since the start of the Trojan War which started twenty years earlier. In the Odyssey the reader is taken through flashbacks that Odysseus has had over the last ten years. These ten years are after the Trojan War has ended. In these ten years he has been held captive by Calypso, stayed with royalty of far off lands, and has been trapped on an island inhabited by cyclops to name a few. Odysseus’ journey started with a large crew and in the end he was the only one left standing. The crew was lost on the perilous journey. Every time Odysseus lost a crew member he was saddened, but he continued to push on. Aeneas on the other hand is a character that is destined to found Rome. He is on the Trojan side of the war, and after they have been defeated he sets sail. Aeneas is accompanied by a crew as