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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
* [[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]]:
* [[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
* [[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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