The Aeneid

The Aeneid

1. Homer

   • The Odysessy
     • Gaining a homeland
     • 'virumque'
   • The Iliad
     • Troy moving to Italy
     • 'arma'
   • Muses
     • 1.8 - hiatus
       • Reader expectations
     • Prompts
   • Inverted order/perspective

2. Themes

   • Love
     • Turnus to Lavinia
     • Cf Apollonius
     • Fire imagery
       • Destruction
       • Passion
       • Cf Paris' desire of Helen
       • Torch = limited
   • Ring composition
     • 'condere'
   • Hesitation
     • Dido before suicide
     • Golden Bough
     • Vulcan
   • Primacy of Fate
     • Characters all give in
     • Above gods
     • Desire/anxieties not as important
   • Sufferings of Wanderers
     • Homeland = identity
     • Disorientation
     • Metaphor
     • Unknown fate
   • Glory of Rome
   • Prophecy
     • Audience know
     • Limited insight
       • 3 - Anchises
   • Revenge
     • Pallas
     • Dido
     • Harpies
     • Juno

3. Characters

   • Aeneas
     • Passive to active
       • Cf Achilles
         • Fully?
       • Accepts fate
         • Can be distracted
           • Dido
     • Restraint?
       • Doesn't know about Ach and Priam
     • Positive prototype
       • Rome's rise
     • Divine protection
     • Compassionate
       • Pious
         • Cf Juno/Turnus
     • Paris = humiliating
   • DIdo
     • Founded own city
     • Victim of cupid
       • Cf Medea
     • Sacrifice A makes
       • For Rome
   • Turnus
     • Irrationality
       • Cf Achilles
     • Cf Hector

4. Simile

   • Homer
     • N =Artemis
       • Flattery
   • Apollonius
     • M = Artemis
     • Menacing
   • Virgil
     • Contrasting
       • Dido is not a girl
       • Male officials
       • Not harmless flirtation
     • When D is a huntress = the end

5. Ecphrasis

   • Temple
     • Different perspective!
       • Patroclus = Achilles
     • Accurate representation
   • Shield
     • Cf angry Achilles
     • A doesn't understand