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Who is the Aeneid by

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Virgil

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Virgil

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Who is the Aeneid by

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The eight values/virtus of the Aeneid

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  • Integrity
  • Good judgement
  • Leadership by example
  • Decision-making
  • Trust
  • Justice/fairness
  • Humility
  • Sense of urgency
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  • Integrity
  • Good judgement
  • Leadership by example
  • Decision-making
  • Trust
  • Justice/fairness
  • Humility
  • Sense of urgency
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The eight values/virtus of the Aeneid

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The 3 Roman values

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  • Fatum/Fate
  • Pietas/Culture
  • Virtus/Values
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  • Fatum/Fate
  • Pietas/Culture
  • Virtus/Values
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The 3 Roman values

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Questions for leadership

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  • “Who are we?”
  • “What do we stand for?”
  • “How will we progress?”
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  • “Who are we?”
  • “What do we stand for?”
  • “How will we progress?”
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Questions for leadership

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Who is Aeneas’s real life equivalent

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Augustus

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Who is Augustus’ fiction equivalent

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Aeneas

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Book 1 Aeneas leadership examples

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After escaping the burning Troy, Aeneas and his people head to seven ships. Everyone is tired, yet Aeneas still rallies his people with a speech.

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After escaping the burning Troy, Aeneas and his people head to seven ships. Everyone is tired, yet Aeneas still rallies his people with a speech.

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Book 1 Aeneas leadership examples

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Book 1 quote

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“Such words he spoke, while sick with deep distress he feigns hope on his face, and deep in his heart stifles his anguish”

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“Such words he spoke, while sick with deep distress he feigns hope on his face, and deep in his heart stifles his anguish”

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Book 1 quote

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Book 2 Aeneas morality example

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Aeneas tells Dido the story of treachery and dishonesty that brought down Troy, despite it being a very painful story to tell.

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Aeneas tells Dido the story of treachery and dishonesty that brought down Troy, despite it being a very painful story to tell.

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Book 2 Aeneas morality example

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Book 2 quote honesty

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Through such snares and craft of forsworn Sinon the story won belief, and we were ensnared by wiles and forced tears

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Through such snares and craft of forsworn Sinon the story won belief, and we were ensnared by wiles and forced tears

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Book 2 quote honesty

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Book 4 example fatum

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Jupiter learns of Dido and Aeneas’s affair, he dispatches Mercury to Carthage to remind Aeneas that his destiny lies elsewhere and that he must leave for Italy. He obeys and immediately leaves Dido.

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Jupiter learns of Dido and Aeneas’s affair, he dispatches Mercury to Carthage to remind Aeneas that his destiny lies elsewhere and that he must leave for Italy. He obeys and immediately leaves Dido.

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Book 4 example fatum

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Furor meaning

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when emotions or other violent forces are allowed to run uncontrolled.

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when emotions or other violent forces are allowed to run uncontrolled.

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Furor meaning

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How did Dido display Furor

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A victim of the god’s spell, Dido is consumed with passion, and she “ached/with longing that her heart’s blood fed, a wound/or inward fire eating her away” (4.1-2).

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A victim of the god’s spell, Dido is consumed with passion, and she “ached/with longing that her heart’s blood fed, a wound/or inward fire eating her away”

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How did Dido display Furor

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Male leadership in Rome family
He looked after the family's business affairs and property and could perform religious rites on their behalf. The paterfamilias had absolute rule over his household and children.
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He looked after the family's business affairs and property and could perform religious rites on their behalf. The paterfamilias had absolute rule over his household and children.
Male leadership in Rome family
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Roman male leadership morals and Dido
Dido was a Queen, a woman in charge of a nation. This is a case of values colliding. There was never any real hope of a relationship here.
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Dido was a Queen, a woman in charge of a nation. This is a case of values colliding. There was never any real hope of a relationship here.
Roman male leadership morals and Dido
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Book 5 piety example
An example of Piety - respect for the gods, family and the state. The funeral games are in honour of his father.
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An example of Piety - respect for the gods, family and the state. The funeral games are in honour of his father.
Book 5 piety example
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Book 5 quote moral
So, he speaks, and sets forth a double prize for the fray; for the victor, a steer decked with gold and fillets
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So, he speaks, and sets forth a double prize for the fray; for the victor, a steer decked with gold and fillets
Book 5 quote moral
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Book 6 quote destiny/fatum
Turn hither now your two-eyed gaze, and behold this nation, the Romans that are yours. Here is Caesar and all the seed of Iulus destined to pass under heaven’s spacious sphere
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Turn hither now your two-eyed gaze, and behold this nation, the Romans that are yours. Here is Caesar and all the seed of Iulus destined to pass under heaven’s spacious sphere
Book 6 quote destiny/fatum
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What must Roman leadership be quote
But you, O Roman, bend your mind to rule Your people with strength. This shall be your art: To impose both terms and rules of peace; To spare the vanquished, and subdue the proud.
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But you, O Roman, bend your mind to rule Your people with strength. This shall be your art: To impose both terms and rules of peace; To spare the vanquished, and subdue the proud.
What must Roman leadership be quote
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What must Roman leadership be explained
Leadership of a Roman must exemplify austerity, piety and restraint. That is, Moral courage.
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Leadership of a Roman must exemplify austerity, piety and restraint. That is, Moral courage.
What must Roman leadership be explained
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Roman leadership and stoicism
The ideology of Stoicism fitted the Roman psyche. Rome has suffered through two great civil wars huge loss of life and property.
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The ideology of Stoicism fitted the Roman psyche. Rome has suffered through two great civil wars huge loss of life and property.
Roman leadership and stoicism
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Moral leadership and Mos Maiorum
The mos maiorum, literally translated as the “custom of the ancestors,” is the core concept of Roman traditionalism
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The mos maiorum, literally translated as the “custom of the ancestors,” is the core concept of Roman traditionalism
Moral leadership and Mos Maiorum
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Aeneas the stoic hero
Ideology – stoicism- embodied in the hero throughout the text. Aeneas ‘famous for his pietas’ and throughout the epic poem he is called ‘pius Aeneas’.
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Aeneas ‘famous for his pietas’ and throughout the epic poem he is called ‘pius Aeneas’.
Aeneas the stoic hero
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How Roman values interlink
PIETAS loyalty to the family, the state and the Gods-a fundamental VALUE in MORAL LEADERSHIP. After the civil war Virgil thought pietas was an antidote to what had gone before.
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PIETAS loyalty to the family, the state and the Gods-a fundamental VALUE in MORAL LEADERSHIP. After the civil war Virgil thought pietas was an antidote to what had gone before.
How Roman values interlink
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How does the Aeneid end?
epic ends with Aeneas initially tempted to obey Turnus' pleas to spare his life, but then killing him in rage when he sees that Turnus is wearing Aeneas' friend Pallas' belt over his shoulder as a trophy. He kills him
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epic ends with Aeneas initially tempted to obey Turnus' pleas to spare his life, but then killing him in rage when he sees that Turnus is wearing Aeneas' friend Pallas' belt over his shoulder as a trophy. He kills him
How does the Aeneid end?
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Moral lesson of the end of the Aeneid
Virgil's Aeneid reminds us that we should expect to have to persevere, not only against opposition from without, but also against our own failures. In doing so, it reminds us that we can be our best selves – so long as we keep trying.
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Virgil's Aeneid reminds us that we should expect to have to persevere, not only against opposition from without, but also against our own failures. In doing so, it reminds us that we can be our best selves – so long as we keep trying.
Moral lesson of the end of the Aeneid
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How leadership imposes burdens
The final scene of the Aeneid shows the dark side of empire, the dark side of conquest and the way those who are in the way of power must suffer. He has lost his home city, Troy, his wife, he lost Dido and he has lost a number of friends.
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The final scene of the Aeneid shows the dark side of empire, the dark side of conquest and the way those who are in the way of power must suffer. He has lost his home city, Troy, his wife, he lost Dido and he has lost a number of friends.
How leadership imposes burdens
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Virgil’s vision of leadership
Virgil’s vision of leadership shows that there is a struggle with inner conflict and growth as they decide on what changes to seek and to what moral foundations must be steadfastly adhered.
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Virgil’s vision of leadership shows that there is a struggle with inner conflict and growth as they decide on what changes to seek and to what moral foundations must be steadfastly adhered.
Virgil’s vision of leadership

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