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Mind Map by Eleanor Peretz, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Eleanor Peretz
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Aeneid Book 6
- Characterisation
- The Sybil
- Wise
- Authoritative
- Has go at Palinarus & oarsman
- Has go at Palinarus & oarsman
- Wise
- Aeneas
- "devout"
- "poured out prayers from
the depth of his heart"
- "poured out prayers from
the depth of his heart"
- Strong leader - took lead
in preparing burial of
Misenus
- Impatient - abandons funeral to take
golden branch to the Sybil
- Distressed to Find Dido dead
- Cries and tries to
comfort her
- Cries and tries to
comfort her
- "devout"
- Dido
- "burning spirit"
- Death has not dulled her
- Death has not dulled her
- "unhappy Dido"
- Refuses to look Aeneas in the
eye
- Runs away from him
- Runs away from him
- Pityable
- Aeneas was
"pitying her as
she went"
- Aeneas was
"pitying her as
she went"
- Hates Aeneas
- "she rushed away,
hating him"
- "she rushed away,
hating him"
- "burning spirit"
- Anchises
- Loyal to family
- "reviewing his dear descendants"
- "reviewing his dear descendants"
- Loves his son - tries to hug him 3 times
- wise
- Loyal to family
- Helen
- "the Murderess from Sparta"
- "the Murderess from Sparta"
- The Sybil
- Heroism
- Elysium is where heroes go when they die
- "great hearted heroes born in a better time"
- "great hearted heroes born in a better time"
- The only people who have succeeded in leaving the
underworld have been the "sons of gods" favoured by
Jupiter, or virtuous
- Misenus described as a"hero"
- Aeneas joins company of Hercules and
Theseus in being transported into the
underworld
- Separate field for "brave warriors"
- Elysium is where heroes go when they die
- Honour and Reputation
- Aeneas' Descendants will be warriors with great strength - reflects well on Aeneas
- Aeneas' descendants will have many victories in battle
- The reputation of the line of Teucer lives on
- "the fairest of all families"
- "the fairest of all families"
- Aeneas chastised by the Sybil for being slow to offer his vows and prayers
- Palinarus is pleased to know they will name a land after him
- Aeneas' Descendants will be warriors with great strength - reflects well on Aeneas
- Family
- Aeneas will have a second son - Silvius
- Venus Helps Aeneas find the golden branch
- Aeneas goes to the Underworld to seek
advice from his father
- Deiphobus Referred to as "the son of Priam"
- Aeneas will have a second son - Silvius
- Women
- Blamed for Deiphobus' death
- The Sybil is treated with respect
- Boatman accepts her authority in allowing
Aeneas to enter the boat
- Boatman accepts her authority in allowing
Aeneas to enter the boat
- Dido is portrayed as someone worthy
of pity
- Aeneas gets more emotional at seeing her than
she does at seeing him
- Aeneas gets more emotional at seeing her than
she does at seeing him
- Lots of the gods of the underworld are female
- Only people mentioned in the "mourning
plains" are female, & Caenus - who has
been restored to the form of a woman. In
all the other parts of the underworld it is
only men who are mentioned
- Idea of only women being victims
of their hearts
- Idea of only women being victims
of their hearts
- Blamed for Deiphobus' death
- Role of the gods
- Virgil makes prayer to the "gods
who rule the world of the spirits"
and Chaos and Phlegethon
- Venus Helps Aeneas
- The Sybil is relating Apollo's prophecies
- Gods are less directly involved in this book
- Porsepina must
have her branch in
order for Aeneas
to enter the
underworld
- Virgil makes prayer to the "gods
who rule the world of the spirits"
and Chaos and Phlegethon
- Power of Fate
- What the Sybil Prophesies will happen
- Aeneas is feels he is owed by the fates
- "The Kingdom I ask for is no more than what is owed to me by the fates"
- "The Kingdom I ask for is no more than what is owed to me by the fates"
- Fate owes some souls a second body
- Romans would know that what Anchises said was fated to be Aeneas'
legacy would come to pass
- What the Sybil Prophesies will happen
- Portrayal of war
- Anchises implores the Romans not
to "turn your strong hands against
the flesh of your motherland"
- Civil war = bad
- Civil war = bad
- Anchises talks of
Marcellus quelling a great
uprising, and laying low
the Gauls and
Carthaginians
- War to protect Rome = good
- War to protect Rome = good
- Anchises implores the Romans not
to "turn your strong hands against
the flesh of your motherland"
- Rome's Imperial Destiny
- "glory" awaits the "Sons of Dardanus"
(Aeneas' descendants)
- Aeneas' son Silvius will rule Alba
Longa
- Mention of Romulus - he will found Rome
- The coming of Augustus Caesar is
"often prophesied"
- The Caesars are descended from Iulius
- The Caesars are descended from Iulius
- "glory" awaits the "Sons of Dardanus"
(Aeneas' descendants)
- Moral Values
- People must be buried
- Otherwise they are stranded on the
banks of the Styx
- Otherwise they are stranded on the
banks of the Styx
- Even those
who died on
false charges
must be
retried
- Cruelest punishments reserved for
those who have sinned against the
gods
- Suicide seen as
sad, prevents
people from living
in Elysium
- Only the worst go to Tartarus
- Frauds - those who have
bragged and cheated in life
- People who hated their
brothers & beat their
fathers
- People who were
greedy with wealth
- Adulterers
- Traitors
- Frauds - those who have
bragged and cheated in life
- People must be buried
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