Aeneas, the Devoted Hero

In Virgil's Aenied, he shows the champion and centered character, Aeneas, as a man who presents piety and duty. This human strong feeling piety, pietas in Latin, is obligation towards family, country, and gods. Aeneas habitually fulfills his obligation to his family, his fated town, and his gods. This piousness is what holds him going through the grueling excursions and trials, even when things are not going perfectly. Pietas is the characteristic that makes Aeneas stronger through each test as he makes personal forfeitures and not ever wavers from his obligations to his family, his homeland, and most of all to the gods. The complete devotion to Aeneas? family is a commendable trait of piety. Aeneas? love for his kin is exemplified in his escaping of dropping Troy. He was recalling his article to Dido about how when he recognizes that there was no use battling any longer, and that he must leave Troy; he hurries off to find his family. Anchises, on his shoulder, Iulus, his son?s little hand in his own, and Creusa, his wife close behind as they head off for the ships. When he comes to his destination at the burial mound, he realizes that his wife was missing. Aeneas ?turn[s] back alone into the city? nothing for it but to run the dangers again ? comb of all Troy, and put [his] life in danger as before?(975-979 II). His devotion to his wife was worth endangering his life in alignment to bring her to safety. As he frantically searches ?in endless quest from door to door?(1001 II) for Creusa, her ghost emerged to him and notified to him that she cannot go with him because she was longer living, but to go back to the family and that a exceptional objective is ahead ...