Aeneid scolarship Flashcards
Kerns on the purpose of the Aeneid
to identify the family of Augustus with Aeneas through Aeneas’ divine ancestry’
R.D.Williams on Greeks and Romans
Greeks are ‘individualists’
Romans are ‘dutiful and devoted to others’
Marshall on Dido
‘falls victim to the imperial machine’
Oliensis on women
Virgil associates women with an ‘unruley passion’
Morgan on Lavinia within the plot
“Within the plot Lavinia is almost invisible”
Morgan on Lavinia’s love
“in love with Turnus”
Morgan on Turnus’ presentation
“not presented in anyway as a villain”
Morgan - Turnus as an opponent
“Worthy opponant of Aeneas”
Morgan - Turnus as a Roman
“Romans couldn’t look at and fail to see as one of their own”
Morgan - similarity between Aeneas and Turnus
“almost indistinguishable”
Morgan on women’s roles within the Aeneid
“they only have a role in the Aeneid if they are behaving like men”
Morgan on Dido
“becomes an uncomfortable figure in the Aeneid when she starts acting in characteristically feminine ways”
Desmond on Dido
She fails as a ‘king’ because she starts acting like a ‘lover’
Buckley on Turnus’ death
the verb ‘condore’ to stab or to found is used. Rome is founded by Aeneas when he kills Turnus.
Deryck Williams on Greeks and Romans
‘great individualists’
‘dutiful and devoted to others’
