You might double back and read the Odyssey. The Aeneid is in two halves, the Odysseian first half and the Iliadic second half. Virgil is creating a new creation

You might double back and read the Odyssey. The Aeneid is in two halves, the Odysseian first half and the Iliadic second half. Virgil is creating a new creation myth for Rome, different from Romulus and Remus, and he's binding it to the Homeric epics. I like the Odyssey more but I like both.