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Aeneid Flashcards

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Vergil

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Author

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Time period

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Augustus

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Genre

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Epic poetry

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Aeneas

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Trojan hero, descendants found Rome

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Dido

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Queen of Carthage; commits suicide

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Venus

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Mother of Aeneas; goddess

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Juno

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Hates Trojans; Patron of Carthage; goddess

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Jupiter

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King of gods; Directs Aeneas’ progress

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Turnus

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Ruler of Rutulians; Lavina’s other suitor; wages war against Trojans

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Evander

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King of Pallanteum; father of Pallas; Helps Aeneas against Turnus

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Latinus

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King of Latins; Father of Lavina

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Amata

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Wife of Latinus; wants Lavinia to marry Turnus; kills herself

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Lavina

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Daughter of Latinus and Amata; suitors are Aeneas and Turnus

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Pallas

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Son of Evander; he trusts him to Aeneas’ care; Turnus kills him and Aeneas avenges him

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Themes

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Wandering hero; piety; How to live a good life; Devotion to duty; Family; Rome’s divinely willed destiny

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Books 1-6

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Odyssean part; Aeneas as a wandering hero on hid god-sent mission to found a new city

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Books 7-12

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Iliadic part; Aeneas and Trojans are at war with the Italians and their allies

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What does Aeneas take with him?

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Penates (Household gods), his family

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What city does his son found?

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Alba Longa

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Roman hero

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Pious epithet; Roman heroism; Personal desires are subsumed for the good of the community

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Roman heroism

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On the behalf of the community, corporate heroes

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Aeneid syle

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Part of propaganda; celebrate golden age that Augustus’ reign ushered in; bad stuff pushed to the background

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Proem

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Tells what the poem will be about: War and men at war, destiny; and fated to found a city

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Book 1

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Carthage; Juno’s wrath (Tries to drown their ships); arrive with only 7 ships; Venus’ appeal; Jupiter’s prophecy; Dido; Aeneas on himself; Aeneas with venus; Eros assaults Dido

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Wrath of Juno

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Judgement of Paris; Knew Rome would conquer Carthage

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How was Carthage founded in myth?

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Dido fled and founded it; real- Punics/Phoenicians colonized there; became powerful

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Juno asks Aeolus to drive the Trojan ships off course

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Bribe: the nymph, Deiopeia, but Neptune calms the sea

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Mother’s appeal

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Venus appeals to Jupiter for her son

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Jupiter’s prophecy

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Lords of the world will be the Romans and the empire will last forever

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Aeneas encounters his disguised mother

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She tells him Dido’s history; he recognizes her and asks why she disguised herself and he just wants a hug

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Aeneas on himself

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Duty bound, famous, pious, saved form the enemy, descended from Venus, follows fate

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Aeneas and Troy

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Lost his wife and city, looking for a new home, left with his father and son

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Temple of Juno in Carthage

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While Aeneas is in the clouds he describes the city, walls are painted with scenes of the Trojan war, shows Carthage is civilized but he cries at the scenes

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Ekphrasis

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Describes something visual (Like the shield of Achilles)

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Eros assaults Dido

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She is inflicted with amour for Aeneas as he tells his story

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Book 2

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Fall of Troy and the Trojan horse, ghost of Hector

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Book 3

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Aeneas’ wanderings

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Book 4

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Pergamum; Aeneas leaves Dido

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Who is Dido meant to represent?

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Cleopatra (Villainous)

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Book 6

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Speaks with his father, guided through Hades, meets Dido, other Trojans, monsters, famous people, and souls not yet born (Romulus, Caesar, and Augustus (Propaganda))

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Sybil

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Aeneas’ guide through the underworld; female prophet

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Book 7

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Trojans land in Latinus’ territory; Lavinia’s hair catches fire; Latinus seeks an oracle; Trojans have reached destined place; Latinus offers Lavinia to Aeneas

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Lavinia’s hair catches fire

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Bright future but a great war

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Book 8

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Aeneas agrees to marry Lavinia, goes to get allies, meets Evander, Evander entrusts Pallas to him, Turnus kills Pallas (Reminiscent of Patrokles killing Sarpedon)

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Oracle tells Latinus what?

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Lavinia will marry a foreigner and their children will rule all

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Book 12

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Gods decide to end the war; Turns appeals to Aeneas when he is wounded but Aeneas kills him in an anti-homeric style; Aeneas has become more Roman

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Why could it be that Vergil was actually anti-augustan

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Makes Romans look bad in the end; Underworld two gates: go through gate of dreams

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