How Virgil Saw Women Maxwell C. Bedley In The Aeneid of Virgil, Virgil creatively discusses his view of women in Roman society. He used characteristics that were common among all of his women roles yet each woman had strength in one of the categories. The characteristics of the women can be broken down into a group that is called pietas, which are the virtuous displays of courage with undying love for family, country and the …showed first 75 words of 1764 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1764 total…that Dido demonstrated the men in the poem were shown by example the things that they should have already been doing. In Creusa’s case, Aeneas learned that he needed to pay more attention to his family. The others either directly or indirectly taught the men in the poem that they need to better resemble the qualities that are pietas. This is how Virgil showed that he felt the women of Rome were virtuous people.