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I’m preparing to teach teenagers about the Aeneid next school year, and seeing as I’m a History teacher rather than a Classics teacher, and I can barely remember anything about the Aeneid since I first read it ten years ago, I feel a little out of my depth.
A very small question has cropped up which I know the students will ask so I want to be prepared for it. In the translation I’m using, Aeneas refers to “God”. “God will see to it.” “The will of God.” I’m assuming this is him referring to Jupiter, or is this reference to the gods in general? I don’t remember coming across this usage of the word while teaching the Iliad this year, and would hate to gloss over an important reason for why this word has been used.