Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The sources of the Aeneid
- Mentioned in Naevius
- Dido
- A Carthagian Queen
- Carthage in North Africa
- Foreshadows triumph
- Rome gets grain from Egypt
- Trade links vital
- Carthage poses threat to this
- Homer
- Techniques
- Similies
- Divine action
- Catalogue of forces
- Metre, hexameter
- Whole episodes
- Descent to
underworld
- Funeral games
- Storm and ship
wreck
- Frequent verbal reminiscences
- Homeric heroic
age
- Puts Homeric values side by side with Roman values
- Weighing the nature and validity of Aeneas' more social virtues
- In comparison with with direct and impetuous individualism of heroes of Iliad and Odyssey
- Starts in the middle of things
- Greek
tragedy
- Dido's story is a tragedy
- Largely his own creation
- Turnus' story is a tragedy
- Greek writer Apollonius of Rhodes, wrote of
Argonauts and Jason/Medea love, provided a source for
some features of Dido/Aeneas love
- 'Man that leaves woman'
- Ennius
- Patriotic epic
- Imitates phraseology and diction
- Passages of pathos
- Death of Euryalus
- Funeral of Pallas
- Dido
- Catullus
- 64th poem which contains account of Theseus' desertion of Ariadne
- The sorrow of the lonely individual
- Intricate
- Only a few years before Virgil
- Another 'man leaves woman standed'
- Rude
- Tradition with Romans to use work of literary predecessors