Aeneid Scholars

Question 1

R. Deryck Williams (1973)

Answer 1

“Aeneas has to be the social man”

Question 2

Philip Hardie (2010)

Answer 2

“he is forced into a mission by circumstance beyond his control”

Question 3

Lyne

Answer 3

“Aeneas’ relationships, Virgil appears to neglect”

Question 4

C.J.Mackie

Answer 4

“Aeneas’ general concern to facilitate fate is the cornerstone of his pietas”

Question 5

Two quotes by Kenneth McLeish (1972), both about Pietas

Answer 5

“Book 4, pietas is obscured by the character Dido”
“it is only pietas for the dead Pallas that brings Aeneas to kill Turnus”

Question 6

Hans Peter Stahl

Answer 6

“Aeneas represents the ‘unheroic’ hero”

Question 7

David Ross (2007)

Answer 7

“The Aeneid isn’t a poem about religion, yet fate and the gods are mentioned throughout and are always in control”

Question 8

Two quotes from Colleen Reilly about women in Homeric society

Answer 8

“doomed to fail in a world dominated by males”
“women who step out of traditional gender roles are doomed to fail”

Question 9

Catherine Edwards

Answer 9

“Turnus plays hector to Aeneas achilles”