The Aeneid

Virgil tries to depict warfare as unnecessary and bad. His vision with The Aeneid is to have a time where there are no more wars and the Roman’s lead a successful Empire. Virgil depicts his anti-war views throughout the poem. He uses Aeneas to get his point across by showing that he is tired of war and killing. In book 12, Aeneas feels empathy and forgiveness for Turnus and was even willing to let him live until he saw that he was wearing Pallas’ belt.