Aeneid Scholarship Views Flashcards

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Galinsky in Turnus

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Turnus is dominated by fury and madness which takes on the aspects of wickedness

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Goldberg on Turnus and Aeneas

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Turnus is an expression of the Old Homeric codes of honour which Aeneas must overcome in order to establish Roman values

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Cairns on Aeneas

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Aeneas is not a woodenly perfect hero but has humanising faults throughout

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Reilly on women

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Women who step out of line are doomed to fail

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Quinn on Augustus

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Augustus wanted an epic with himself as the hero

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Jenkyns on Dido

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The gods caused her (Dido) to love but she chose to act upon it

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Edwards on Dido

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Dido is certainly a paralleled to Cleopatra

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Grandsen on Aeneas

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Aeneas is no more than a puppet

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Grandsen on fate

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Fate dominates the Aeneid

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Morgan on the Gods

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The gods are entertaining

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Grebe on the purpose of Aeneid

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The Aeneid was certainly used as propaganda

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Ross on fate

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Fate seems to always be in control

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Markus on destiny

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Destiny is dependent on human will and effort

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Toll on the purpose of the Aeneid

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The Aeneid is a poem of national identity

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Toll on Virgils beliefs

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Virgil’s ideas about the Romans… were much more important to his poem than his ideas about Augustus

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Sowerby on father-son relationships

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

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Williams on father-son relationships

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The honour in which Anchises is held effects the importance of father-son relationships in Roman life