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Key Words - The Aeneid
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- 1Augustan IdealVery different from Homeric ideal, lacks the idea of individual glory.
Focus that Rome comes first and Pietas.
Mos Maiorum, good political and military leader, brave, dutiful, loyal, clementia. - 2ClementiaShowing mercy, compassion and leniancy.
Relates to the Roman aim of peace and stability. - 3FurorAn emotion of complete madness, mania, rage and fury that can dispel intelligent thinking.
- 4Pater FamiliasPater - father.
Head of the family, used as a political term as well. - 5Patronymic EpithetEpithet that relates to patronage as oppose to title due to deeds.
e.g. Augustus Caesar - 6Patriarchal LineageThe oldest man is the head fo the family and constantly in full control, the lineage would always derive from the male line.
Mean't citizenship laws were very fluid. - 7PietasIt roughly translates to mean respect for ancestors, country and institution (Rome).
A form of extreme patriotism.
Associated with duty, honour and respect. - 8Portents, Prophecy and ForeshadowingOften provides an advanced sign of what is to come in the future.
- 9ZoomorphismAttribution of animal characteristics or qualities to a god -
or use of animal forms in symbolism.
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