Aeneid secondary sources Flashcards
Progression of Dido
Williams: “admirable queen”
“pitiable rejected lover”
“Personification of madness and revenge”
Sympathy for Dido?
Williams: “so profound that we tend to reject the roman mission”
Camps: “decision to kill herself… the product of her own character”
Camilla
Morgan: “the plot is generated by women”
Reilly: “step out of traditional gender roles is doomed to fail”
Creusa
Jenkyns: “tribute to married love”
Lavinia
Oliensis: “prove their virtue precisely by submitting to the masculine plot of history”
war
Semple: “destruction of human happiness”
“virgil in truth hated war”
empire and war
Semple: “making of empire was very positive for the Romans”
peace
Adler: “he founds Rome by making a peace settlement in Italy”
Gransden: “In the way of peace and progress”
Other nations
Syed: “enable the Roman reader to work out what is really ‘Roman’ about them”
Italians
Syed: “Lavinia is a ‘proper’ Roman woman”
Empire and other nations
Nusbaumm: “length and breadth of the empire”
“nor is there forced conformity”
Praise of Augustus
Laird: “to justify Augustus’ questionable regime”
Quinn: “another war and another man in mind”
“epic poem with himself as the hero”
Griffin: “divinely chosen, who would restore peace and order”
Critical of Augustus
Sowerby: “in the end, furor wins”
Jenkyns: “appears only three times”
Griffin: “climbed to tyranny over the bodies of his enemies”
Homer
Rutherford: “seeking to rival both Homeric epics”
Aeneas is dependant
Quinn: “wooden puppet lacking genuine human emotion”
Aeneas is pious
Williams: “epithet of pius”
Mackie: “general concern to facilitate fate”
Aeneas and relationships
Lyne: “interaction with others that were minimal”
free will
Camps: “free at any time to reject his divine mission”
“retain their human free will”
Fate
Camps: “may sometimes be postponed but not averted”
“power that is deaf to prayer” “No escape”
sowerby: “ugly manifestation of the malignant power of fate”
Piety
Camps: “only at the end of the poem that the prayer he addresses to her… is granted”
Gods
Camps: “irresponsible and heartless”
Gransden: “most of the plot of the Aeneid is generated by Juno”
Juno’s reconciliation with fate “true resolution of the poem”
Turnus
“Drawn very simply, one Homeric lines” - Pattie
“All sympathy felt for him as the victim of inexorable fate” - Quinn
