Oh, I do like the Aeneid a lot, sorry that did not come through! (It's the Iliad that I rather dislike, although now I feel like I should find the Emily Wilson translation and see if that changes my mind. I suspect I will be even more put off by all the bro posturing, though.) It's just that, even though I quite liked it when I read it, you asked about how my feelings changed after the Odyssey, and I sort of feel -- and I realize this isn't particularly rational, but it's a feeling -- like Virgil ought to have done better having the Odyssey to pattern off of, somehow? :) (It reminds me of the feeling of when one reads (or otherwise consumes) a canon and then finds a fanfic for it that doesn't quite scratch the exact itch one had in mind.)

But yeah, your comment points out something interesting to me, which is that one thing I haven't done (yet) is go back and read Dante all the way through recently, and certainly not since reading the Odyssey -- because a lot of what I adored about the Aeneid is reading what it was that Dante was working off of, Dante being my absolute fave. So I'd totally forgotten Odysseus/Ulysses in the Inferno until you mentioned it! And, heh, because of Dante I suppose I also agree that I admire the Aeneid's literary descendants more. And then as you mentioned there's Le Guin's book, which is on my shelf staring at me. (Though I also remember really liking the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? when I watched it quite a while ago.)

Aenaeas, after defeating Turnus, going from his intention of sparing him to killing him after he has surrendered when he sees Turnus' wearing the armor of his dead friend.

Yeah! And at least Achilles gives the body back, eventually :P

But OH how did I forget about Camilla?? Who was my absolute favorite! :D Yes, there's that!