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The sources of the Aeneid

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A summary of where Virgil based the Aeneid, his predecessors etc
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The sources of the Aeneid
  1. Mentioned in Naevius
    1. Dido
      1. A Carthagian Queen
        1. Carthage in North Africa
          1. Foreshadows triumph
            1. Rome gets grain from Egypt
              1. Trade links vital
                1. Carthage poses threat to this
      2. Homer
        1. Techniques
          1. Similies
            1. Divine action
              1. Catalogue of forces
                1. Metre, hexameter
                2. Whole episodes
                  1. Descent to underworld
                    1. Funeral games
                      1. Storm and ship wreck
                      2. Frequent verbal reminiscences
                        1. Homeric heroic age
                          1. Puts Homeric values side by side with Roman values
                            1. Weighing the nature and validity of Aeneas' more social virtues
                              1. In comparison with with direct and impetuous individualism of heroes of Iliad and Odyssey
                            2. Starts in the middle of things
                            3. Greek tragedy
                              1. Dido's story is a tragedy
                                1. Largely his own creation
                                2. Turnus' story is a tragedy
                                  1. Greek writer Apollonius of Rhodes, wrote of Argonauts and Jason/Medea love, provided a source for some features of Dido/Aeneas love
                                    1. 'Man that leaves woman'
                                  2. Ennius
                                    1. Patriotic epic
                                      1. Imitates phraseology and diction
                                        1. Passages of pathos
                                          1. Death of Euryalus
                                            1. Funeral of Pallas
                                              1. Dido
                                          2. Catullus
                                            1. 64th poem which contains account of Theseus' desertion of Ariadne
                                              1. The sorrow of the lonely individual
                                                1. Intricate
                                                  1. Only a few years before Virgil
                                                    1. Another 'man leaves woman standed'
                                                      1. Rude
                                                      2. Tradition with Romans to use work of literary predecessors
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