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R.J. Tarrant
- Virgil
- “Virgil’s fusion of
mythological
epic and poetry
on themes from
Roman history
are unique”
- “Virgil seems at
first an unlikely
prospect as a
political writer. "
- “ Augustus ensured
the Aeneid’s survival
by overruling Virgil’s
dying wish to have
it burned.”
- “In philosophical terms, Virgil’s
viewpoint combines an Aristotelian
acceptance of anger with a Stoic’s
horror of anger and of its effects
on those influenced.”
- “Virgil’s fusion of
mythological
epic and poetry
on themes from
Roman history
are unique”
- Aeneas
- “However strongly Aeneas
may be likened to Augustus,
he never becomes simply his
heroic equivalent …e.g his
affair with Dido- he subjects
himself shamefully to a
foreign queen, which
reminds readers of Antony’s
involvement with Cleopatra."
- “However strongly Aeneas
may be likened to Augustus,
he never becomes simply his
heroic equivalent …e.g his
affair with Dido- he subjects
himself shamefully to a
foreign queen, which
reminds readers of Antony’s
involvement with Cleopatra."
- Augustus
- “It is appropriate that
Augustus is seen in an
ambivalent light, for Virgil
could appreciate the very
different figure Augustus had
chosen to become (from his
bloody youth), and could
make him the
instrument of a real, if
troubled, hope.
- “It is appropriate that
Augustus is seen in an
ambivalent light, for Virgil
could appreciate the very
different figure Augustus had
chosen to become (from his
bloody youth), and could
make him the
instrument of a real, if
troubled, hope.
- Propaganda
- “Contemporary
events are explicit in
the Aeneid e.g the
Battle of Actium on
Aeneas' shield."
- “The action is set in the
heroic past but is narrated
from present viewpoint. At
three points a prophetic
vision reveals events that
lie far in Aeneas’ future but
which belonged to the past
of Virgil’s audience "
- "To see signs in Virgil
of an ambivalent or
even a pessimistic
outlook is not to read
it anachronistically"
- "pessimistic readings
have origins in the
poem’s conception of
human nature."
- "An optimistic view
highlights the hopes
for renewal and
stability raised by
Augustus ."
- "Virgil’s optimism
is linked to his
pride in Rome
and his hopes for
its future.”
- " an Anti-Augustan
reading is really a
sense of quiet despair,
a Virgil's private lack of
faith in the positive
vision of Rome”
- "a scholar’s political context has a huge
impact on whether they view the Aeneid
optimistically or pessimistically."
- “Contemporary
events are explicit in
the Aeneid e.g the
Battle of Actium on
Aeneas' shield."
- Furor
- “the last image in the
poem is not victory or
peace, but the furious
rage in which Aeneas
exacts vengeance for
Pallas’ death.”
- “the last image in the
poem is not victory or
peace, but the furious
rage in which Aeneas
exacts vengeance for
Pallas’ death.”
- Prophecy
- “prophecies (1, 6, 8)
illustrate a technique
Virgil employs to
incorporate an
Augustan outlook
without making it
appear simply his own"
- "the prophecies' functions
are to heighten Aeneas’
confidence in his mission's
success. This helps to
account for the nature of
these visions, which might
appear merely
propagandistic outside
their poetic context.”
- “prophecies (1, 6, 8)
illustrate a technique
Virgil employs to
incorporate an
Augustan outlook
without making it
appear simply his own"
- War
- "Trojans vs Latins
war is shown in a
Homeric light as
Virgil’s counterpart
to the Iliad"
- "the conflict
evokes Rome’s
civil wars."
- "Trojans vs Latins
war is shown in a
Homeric light as
Virgil’s counterpart
to the Iliad"
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