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Aeneid Scholar Quotes Flashcards

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Otis on Book 6 and Aeneas’ Journey

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The primary importance of the journey is that it represents a spiritual illumination that fit him for his mighty task

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Jenkyns on Dido and the Gods

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Dido doesn’t have a moral flaw she’s made to supernaturally fall in love with Aeneas

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Jenkyns on Dido’s death

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It’s not right to blame anyone in particular because that’s the way it’s written

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Boyle on Aeneas in the underworld

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Aeneas’ journey in the underworld did not have much of an impact on him at all

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Otis on Aeneid

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Celebration of the Augustine hero and hope that Augustus brought to Rome

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Jenkyns on Book 8

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It’s the holiday book

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Jenkyns on the first and second halves

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In the first he is despairing, in the second he is moving irresistibly forwards to victory

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Harrison on Stoicism

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Romans saw stoicism as an interest of the state

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Williams on Aeneas Suffering

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He is a homeric hero because he suffers for others - “social man”

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Reilly on Women

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Women who step out of traditional roles are doomed to fail

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Quinn on the characters of the Aeneid

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Virgil creates complex characters worthy of sympathy

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Williams on the purpose of the Aeneid

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Aeneid is to glorify Rome and Augustus

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Hardie on Aeneas’ personality

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Aeneas has a boring personality because that is what is driven upon him by the fates

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Camps on Aeneas being a puppet

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Aeneas is a puppet controlled by external forces

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Camps on Aeneas’ free will

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Hiss free will is what distinguishes him from other characters

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Camps on Turnus in Book 10

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The reader is meant to sympathise with him though he is misguided and bloodthirsty

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Edwards on the Aeneid and Augustus

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The Aeneid endorses Augustus

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Hardie on modern audience of the Aeneid

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Modern readers think it’s anti augustun

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Edwards on fate of Rome

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Rome is fated to be settled there

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Edith Hall on why Aeneas kills Turnus

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Aeneas killing Turnus is to avenge Pallas who is like an adopted son

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Edith Hall on Aeneid being Utopia

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Utopian Poem

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Cowan on Furor

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Furor is the most destructive and pervasive force in the Aeneid

Can also take form as sexual furor when Dido commits suicide

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Cowan on leaders calming furor

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Leaders need to be able to calm their own furor, even in Aeneas in Book 12, otherwise they can’t calm others - Neptune comapred to calming a rioting mob

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Mackie on book 6

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Book 6 Main theme is its direct personal relevance of Aeneas and his role in the story

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Hardie on Book 6

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Book 6 demonstrates the virgilian pathos of the premature death of young men

Shows a very male dominated view of roman society

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Becker on Camilla

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Virgil takes the opportunity to decry the heroic code of behaviour which prides itself on glory and booty

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Becker on warfare

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Whether the perpetrator is male or female, enemy or ally, the work of the battlefield is unilaterally inglorious

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Jenkyns on Camilla

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One of Virgils’ strangest and most original creations, both delicate and savage

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Feely on Killing of Turnus

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Turnus’ death is a relief, satisfies expectation

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Rutherford on Aeneas and Turnus as Kings

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neither can be regarded as model figures of ideal kings

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Hardie on Dido

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Noble heroine who makes a fateful mistake

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Sage on Aeneas being passive

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Aeneas is an instrument of the Gods, passive and passionless

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Sage on Aeneas being unheroic

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Falls short of the heroic in every respect

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Jenkyns on Aeneas’ flaws

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Aeneas’ faults are not feeling too little but feeling too much

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Williams on Juno’s role in plot - Positive

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Major part of the story, formidable

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Williams on Turnus’ fate

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Must happen because it contrasts to destiny

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Williams on Dido’s character

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A tragic queen, admirable

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Williams on Death of Turnus

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Turnus was barbaric, the antithesis to the civilisation Aeneas wanted to found

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Mackie on Aeneas and Fate

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Aeneas’ general concern is to facilitate fate

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Gransden on Book 4

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Book 4 is structured like a greek tragedy

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Williams on Aeneas’ positive character

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Good leader because he doesn’t hunt for personal satisfaction

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Gransden on War

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War doesn’t last very long, not a key part of the story

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Sewery on Anchises and Aeneas

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The relationship between father and son is the closest bond in the poem

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Jenkyns on Creusa

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Noble in her death of comforting those close to her

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Harrison on Juno

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Juno is a soap opera bitch

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Gransden on Fate

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Heavy supporter of fate in driving the story

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Kennedy on Jupiter

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Jupiter role is to be a narrator in causing things to happen

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Ross on Gods and Fate

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Gods and Fate are everywhere throughout the poem, seeming to be always in control

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Cowan on Nisus and Euryalus

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Their death show the needless and tragic destruction of a thing of beauty, by a mindless impersonal force

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Jenkyns on Creusa being a good wife

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Creusa wants to comfort her husband in her death, upholding her role as a wife

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Sewery on Dido being a victim

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Dido is a victim of Roman destiny

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Jenkyns on Different sides of Aeneas

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We see someone experiencing ordinary human difficulties

Primitive red-blooded warrior with strong emotions

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Williams on Gods being negative

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Striking and Relentless

Jupiter gives rule without end

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Williams on Aeneas as a mortal

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“He is an ordinary mortal, no superhero”

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