Is Aeneas a hero?

I believe that Aeneas is a hero, in the same way that Odysseus is. His men where his top priority and he tried hard to keep them safe though their home land was destroyed. After their ships were  destroyed by  Juno and they were shipwrecked he hunted enough food for his “surviving” men and still mourned the lost of comrades he thought he had lost. He is the kind of hero that even though he pushes through for his men, he still shows respect to the ones that no longer were with them. Aeneas seems like a proud man that is wears his trials and tribulations like a badge and still continues keep hope. Like Odysseus he too is protected by the gods even though it seems as if the protection is  off and on. Being that his mom is a god you would think that he had a sense of entitlement but he seems to think of himself in the same manor of his men. Which is something I think that Virgil wanted to depict.