In regards to The Aeneid, can you discover any possible influences on Virgil's religious thought? What does your answer allow you to infer about...

Vergil (that is a more accurate spelling of the name) was part of the Augustan age. So, his influences must have been those religions and philosophies of his day. So, the question is what was around?

First, we should probably say that Vergil got a lot of his material from the epics of the past, namely, Homer. The very first words of his epic show this. I sing of arms and a man. The arms = Iliad, Trojan War. Man = Odysseus. So, the religion of the Greeks probably influenced him.

Second, Roman religion influenced him. Roman religion was very much into religious rites. In short, Roman religion was about "right doing" and not so much about "right believing."

Third, there was a lot of philosophies. Epicureanism and Stoicism come to mind.