W. R. Johnson _Darkness Visible: A Study of Vergil's Aeneid._
Johnson compares Vergil with Homer quite a bit. I can't recall how
much he goes into the subject of heroism. For heroism in homer, try
Nagy _The Best of the Achaians_. The focus is largely Achilles, as I
recall.
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> Can anyone
Try David Quint. _Epic and Empire_. Princeton: Princeton U. Pr.,
1993.
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And don't forget Clytemnestra's dream of nursing a snake that then
bit her in Aeschylus' _Libation Bearers_. Her son Orestes fulfilled
the dream by killing her.
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