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Was Aeneas justified in killing Turnus in the Aeneid?

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Was Aeneas justified in killing Turnus in the Aeneid?

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Vergil in many ways has ideas which closely anticipate the thinking of the Christians who would arrive a few generations later. The idea of submitting one’s personal desires to the will of god is very Christian. (Aeneas does it by leaving Dido, Christ did it in the Garden of Gethsemane).

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