Who Plagiarized Virgils First Book of the Aeneid?
Whoa, Homer didn’t plagiarize Virgil. Virgil came over 700 years AFTER Homer. Virgil was the one who drew from Homer. You can see this in the general construct of the Aeneid and the Odyssey and Iliad. Also, there are specific elements that are very similar. For example, Homer describes that Hermes strapped on his sandals and flew down like a bird, skimming over the water. Virgil describes Hermes the same way, saying he flew from Olympus and flew barely above the ground. (I don’t have the actual quotes for these, but they are in the text). Also, Athena hid Odysseus in a mist, Venus hid Aeneas in a cloud. There are many other examples in the text. However, you can’t really say that there was plagiarism, because many of the early literary works had similar plot elements, situations, etc. During the Medieval period, it was even said that there was nothing worth saying if it hadn’t been said before. While the authors may have drawn from each others works, they would not be famous in their o
