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* [[It's Personal]]: Aeneas ''would'' have been perfectly content to show his rival, Turnus, mercy and let him live... if he hadn't killed his friend a few books ago. Mezentius and Aeneas' conflict also turns personal after {{spoiler|the death of the former's son}}.

* [[Jerkass Gods]]: Pretty much all of them, but Juno is in her own category.

* [[Last of His Kind]]: Aeneas and the other Trojans are part of a handful of survivors of their city-state after it was exterminated by the Greeks. ''The Aeneid'' definitely contributed to the idea of the surviving Trojans being the founders of other ~~countries -- for~~ example, several Medieval works had them as the founders of Britain.

* [[Last of His Kind]]: Aeneas and the other Trojans are part of a handful of survivors of their city-state after it was exterminated by the Greeks. ''The Aeneid'' definitely contributed to the idea of the surviving Trojans being the founders of other countries—for example, several Medieval works had them as the founders of Britain.

* [[Love At First Sight]]: Dido for Aeneas, justified in that Cupid, Aeneas' half-brother, personally causes it.

** Aeneas and Pallas seem to have become friends at first sight. I mean seriously, a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] for a guy you've known for a week or two?

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* [[Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome]]: Ascanius goes from a small child in the first book to being able to go hunting at Carthage and then fighting and killing in the Latin wars.

* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: Dido and Aeneas.

* [[Sword Over Head]]: ~~Subverted -- Aeneas~~ almost decides to spare Turnus when he has him cornered at swordpoint, until he remembers how Turnus killed his friend.

* [[Sword Over Head]]: Subverted—Aeneas almost decides to spare Turnus when he has him cornered at swordpoint, until he remembers how Turnus killed his friend.

* [[Temporary Love Interest]]: Dido.

* [[To Hell and Back]]: Book VI. Possibly the [[Trope Namer]].

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** Homer refers to the Trojan Horse (the "Wooden Horse" in Greek) in books 4 and 8 of ''[[The Odyssey]]''. Vergil just expanded on the incident.

* [[Watching Troy Burn]]: The [[Trope Namer]].

* [[We Will Meet Again]]: Dido's [[Last Words]] are that hers and Aeneas' people will meet again in ~~war -- Virgil~~'s fictional cause of the Punic Wars.

* [[We Will Meet Again]]: Dido's [[Last Words]] are that hers and Aeneas' people will meet again in war—Virgil's fictional cause of the Punic Wars.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Aeneas does a few things to provoke this reaction, among them abandoning Dido without warning and slaying the helpless Turnus at the end of the poem. While the ancient Romans [[Values Dissonance|would have viewed these actions somewhat differently than modern readers do]], the discrepancy is not so great that Aeneas' less heroic moments wouldn't have caused them some pause.

** Some have argued that this was deliberate; since Aeneas was supposed to be a stand-in for Augustus, many believe that Virgil worked in a [[Take That]] or two out of resentment for having his farm confiscated to give to soldiers.

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