Aeneas tells his comrades to recall their courage and banish fear. He also gives them an optimistic framework for how to think about sad times in the future. The book was so embraced when it originally appeared. It had this ripple effect of saying if Aeneas's sacrifices were worth it for him to get here for us, then our sacrifices are also maybe worth it for us to get to a better place.

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