Aeneas in Virgil's The Aeneid and Moses in the Bible are both leaders of a wandering people destined to settle in a particular land, but their leadership is quite different. Let's look at each of them in turn to help you get started on your comparison.

Aeneas is the protagonist of The Aeneid. He is a man without a city since Troy has been destroyed, and he has been told by the gods that he will found a new city in Italy. But his people meet great hardships along the way because of the jealousy and the grudge of the goddess Juno. Aenaes also gets sidetracked in Carthage due to his inopportune love (or lust) for Dido, but he is called back to his mission by Jove, repents, and moves on. Aeneas is a warrior, brutal on the battlefield yet also with a sense of honor. Eventually, but only after a series of bloody and deadly conflicts, he settles in Italy and builds what would one day become the civilization of Rome.

Moses has been called by God as a prophet to lead God's people out of slavery in Egypt. They are a people without a homeland, but God has one in mind for them. Moses is their connection to God, their mediator and their intercessor. Moses leads the people out of Egypt after God provides a series of signs that culminates in the Passover. Moses then goes up the mountain to receive the Law from God, the Law that would guide the people in becoming God's covenant family. But the people sin and reject God by making and worshiping the golden calf. Moses intercedes for the people before God. He then leads them to the border of the Promised Land, but he does not enter into the land because of his own sin (which is never fully described). Moses' second-in-command, Joshua, becomes the warrior figure although God is the one who does the fighting for His people.