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Is This the End of the Aeneid?

Is This the End of the Aeneid?

Update: 2025-10-31
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It's time to talk about the shocking, the dramatic, the THRILLING and also, the kind of confusing end of Virgil's Aeneid. What a journey it's been! The story is never truly over, but as we leave Aeneas behind we have to ask--did Virgil mean for it to end this way? With Turnus' blood spilled ruthlessly on the ground and after that, the dark? Some say no--this is an incomplete ending that would have horrified the Emperor Augustus. I say yes--and Augustus would have been delighted. What do you say? 

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Is This the End of the Aeneid?

Is This the End of the Aeneid?

Spencer A. Klavan