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juno- defeat

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-‘i cannot keep him from his kingdom in latium;so be it’
-‘I juno, yield and quit these battles’

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book 1 quotes - cards 3-29

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To show that fate of Aeneas and evoking the muse - divine intervention

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‘I sing of arms and of the man, fated to be able to exile’

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Shows Juno’s anger at the trojans and why she hates them

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‘How did he violate the will of the queen of the gods?’

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Quote to show how suffering and loss was needed to found the Roman race

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‘So heavy was the loss at founding the Roman race’

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Quote to show how Juno directly wanted to attack the trojans in book 1

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‘Whip your winds, overwhelm their ships and sink them’ - to Aeolus

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Quote to show how the Trojans were overwhelmed by the storm

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‘Wherever the Trojans looked death stared at them in the face’
-Aeneas also wishes he had died in battle - shows despair which is not a heroic view - more honour in dying in battle then at sea

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Quote to show Aeneas piletas to his men even he is suffering and he needs to comfort his men

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‘He showed them the face of hope and kept his misery deep in his heart’
-kills seven deer which was one for each of his ships

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Quote to show Venus’ dispare at the destruction of the Trojans - pleading to Jupiter

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‘What crimes have the Trojans committed that they shown suffer this loss of life’

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Quote to show the propaganda of the founding of the Roman race - jupiters prophecy

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‘I have given him an empire that will know no end’

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Quote to show propaganda surrounding Julius Caesars rule

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‘From this noble stock there will be born a Trojan Caesar to bound his empire…. He will be called Julius’

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Quote to show propaganda against the carthaginians

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‘In accordance with divine will the carthaginians lead aside their fiery temper’
-indicates that the carthaginians were not open to fate and context to the Punic wars

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Significance of Venus appearing to Aeneas in disguise

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Aeneas wants love and comfort from his mother
-but appears to him as a slave girl - less interaction possible -separation bwt the two

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Why did dido flee tyre

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Brother killed her husband
Threatened dido and so she fled with her people and founded Carthage

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Quote to show how Aeneas is angry at his mother

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Why do you often mock your own song by taking these cruel disguises

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Why does Venus cover Aeneas in a thick mist

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To disguise Aeneas so his isn’t seen by the carthaginians at first

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Why are the buildings the Carthaginians are building significant

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-shows the Trojan war - Aeneas is already famous - shows emotions at seeing them
-Trojan war already mythical

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What is a quote to show dido as a capable ruler

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‘Like Diana’
Being compared to Diana shows her to be a capable leader and skilled fighter

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quote to show how Dido is fated against Aeneas

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‘doomed Dido’

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quote to show how Dido has suffered and therefore is compatible to Aeneas

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‘i,too, have known ill fortune like yours’
‘through my own suffering, I am learning to help those who suffer’

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what is the importance of having Carthage shown to be wealthy and showing off abt their wealth

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-contrast to the roman idea abt being a republic and not having a conc of wealth in one individual
-romans were more mdoest so would have scored these practices

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quote to shows Aeneas’ father/son bond - his pietas

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‘but a father’s love allowed aeneas’ mind no rest all though were on his dear son ascanius’

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quote to show how Venus caused Dido to become maddened by poison/love

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‘(young ascanius) to inflame the heart of the queen, driving her to madness…winding the fire of passion round her bones’

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what does the epithet ‘doomed dido’ make the audience feel

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PATHOS - emotions

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what is the significance of Dido praying and offering libations to Juno
-Juno will be her downfall -orchestrates love affair of Aeneas and dido in bk 4 -this then causes Aeneas to forget his duty and betray dido so then she kills herself with his sword on top of her own funeral pyre
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what did juno keep in carthage
her armour and her chariot
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what did Juno want for carthage
to give it sovereignty over the people of the earth
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why does Juno going to Aeolus go against fate
-fate wants Aeneas to land in carthage unharmed so that he can found the latin race -but juno does not want carthage to be harmed
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what does Juno promise Aelous for helping her
-Deiopeas hand in marrige -shows how desperate Juno is to destroy Aeneas and his fleet -bribery - women used for bribe purposes
30
quote to show the grief of the loss of Tory and the trojans to aeneas
'bitter grief was everywhere. everywhere there was fear, and death in many forms'
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what quote shows priam wanting to defend his people and homeland but being too weak to do so - extreme pietas
'feeble sword and made for the thick of the fight, looking for death.'
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quote to show aeneas anger at helen - blames her for starting the trojan war
'although there is no fame worth remembering by punishing a woman.... I shall win praise for blotting out this evil' 'the passion flared in my heart and i longedf in my anger to avenge my country even as it fell and exact penalties for her crimes' -wild passion -enraged by furor this quote shows that he is so overcome by anger and loss he has abandoned his moral compass and has decided to kill Helen although he wouldn't win praise.
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quote describing Turnus in bk 9 abt to fight the trojans
'Turnus in a fury prowled round the walls ...like a wolf in the dead of night ... by a pen full of sheep' -animalisitic -preying on the trojans -similar to how Aeneas and his men are described in bk 2 - when acting in a furor
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quote to show the downfall of Dido
'I sense the return of old fires' -fire imagery
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quote to show how Anna thinks that the relationship of Dido and Aeneas will be futile for Carthage
'to what pinnacle of glory will Carthage be raised if Trojans are marching on our sides' -irony -Rome will go to war against Carthaginians later on -Aeneas will turn his back on Dido when reminded of his duty and fate and so Dido is heartbroken and kills herself - Carthage begins to fall as leaderless
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quote to show how Dido has been misled by Juno and succumbs to love
'Poisoned by loves deadly wound' -foreshadowing the downfall and death fo dido -sacrifices herself after she has been inflicted by hatred for Aeneas and the trojans and she curses them
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quote to show how Didos love for Aenas brought about the fall of Carthage
'all the towers she was building ceased to rise' -shwos how Didos consumption and preoccupation with her love for Aeneas has caused her to neglect her duties -in dying she causes the destruction of Carthage as she leaves it with no leader
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quote to show Mercury reminding Aeneas of his destiny - to found the city of Rome and find a new home for the people of Troy
'have you entirely forgotten your own kingdom and your own destiny' 'spare a thought for Ascanius' -rienforces the father/son relationship ' -he only left Carthage because he is reminded of his sons and that he needs to provide a future for him to survive
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quote to show how Didos reaction to Aeneas leaving
'Raged and raved round the whole city like a bacchant' -in madness - consumed by furor
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quotes to show omens of Didos death
'consecrated milk go black' 'the wine .... turn to filthy gore'
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quotes from Didos curse prophesising the future of the relations bwt Carthage and Rome and also Aeneas' future
'let there be war bwt the nations and their sons forever' 'let him be harried in a war by a people bold in arms'
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quote to show Anna's reaction to the death of her sister Dido
'it is not only yourself you have destroyed but also your sister and your people'
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quote to show Aeneas piety at the start of bk 6
'no more than what is owed to me by the fates' -shows he believes in the gods and fate -and does not ask for more than is expected of him
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quote to show the possession of the sibyl by Apollo
'harder he strained upon her foaming mouth, taming that wild heart and moulding her by his pressure' -shows the strength of the gods
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quote to show what the sibyl predicts for Aeneas and when he lands in Italy
'deadly war' 'thibris foaming with torrents of blood'
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quote to show the emotional reunion of Anchises and Aeneas in the underworld - fields of Elysium
'3 times he tried to put his arm around his father ... 3 times the phantom melted in his hands'
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quote to show propaganda of Augustus in Anchises description of the pageant of heroes
'Augustus Caesar, son of a god, the man who will bring back the golden years to the fields of Latium' 'extend Rome's empire beyond the Indians and Garamantes to a land beyond the stars, beyond the yearly path of the sun'
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quote to show Virgil's endorsement of Augustus power and authority in rome
'your taks roman and do not foregt it, will be to govern the peoples of the world in your empire' 'These will be your arts- and to impose a settled pattern upon peace, to pardon the defeated and war don the proud' -this is a reference to what A says in the res gestae - roman achievement
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quote to show the inflection of Amata by Alecto - in turn Juno
'maddening poison of the serpent had soaked deep in her flesh and oozed all through her body, the unhappy Amata, driven out of her mind by monstrous affliction raged in a wild frenzy' 'possessed by Bacchus'
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quote to show how Iris told turnus to attack the trojan camp and why
'make a surprise attack on their seize' -Aeneas is away in pallenteum - so the trojan camp is without its best fighter - weaker
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quotes to show the brutality and innocence of Euryalus death
'like a scarlet flower languishing and dying when its stem has been cut by the plough' 'like poppies bowing their heads when the rain burdens them and their necks grow weary' -extended simile emphasizes E death - not deserving of a violent death - he is in his youth and vitality - death is a tradegy
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quote to show the sadness of the deaths of Nisus and Euryalus
'Then, pierced through and through, he hurled himself on the dead body of his friend and rested there at last in the peace of death' -oxymoron -caused by their own recklessness -like the rain burdens the poppies - E death would burden Nisus and so in death they are reunited and at peace
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quote to show how Nisus tries to save Euryalus by putting the blame on himself
'Here I am! Here I am! I am the one who did it! Aim your weapons at me you Rutulians' -exclamation -desperate to save him -still has hope that he can change the course of events
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quote to show Euryalus' desire for fame and glory
'great love of glory' 'blazing frenzy' - killing the rutulians
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quote to show that the gods are not meant to interfere in human affairs
'this day let each man face his own fortune' 'the fates will find a way'
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quote to show that the shield that is given to aeneas by Vulcan - becoming more like Achilles
'invincible shield with its rim of gold given you by the god of fire himself'
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quote to show the foreshadowing of Turnus' death
'he will bitterly regret this spoil and the day he took it' 'the mind of a man who has no knowledge of what Fate holds in store'
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quote to show the comparision of Aeneas and mythical creatures
'Aeneas was like Aegaeon' 'who they say had a hundred arms and a hundred hands, with fire flaming from fifty breasts and mouths, and fifty was the number of swords he drew against the lightning of Jupiter, fifty the number of identical shields he clashed- so seemed Aeneas, raging victorious all over the plain, when once his sword blade had warmed to the work'
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quote to show how Venus wants to protect the future of her descendants
'allow me to take Ascanius safely out of the war. Allow my grandson to live. As for Aeneas, let him be tossed by storms in unknown waters and go the road that Fortune gives him, but grant me the power to protect Ascanius and take him out of this fearful battle'
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quote to show how Ascanius is described like a god in the middle of the trojan camp
'he was like a gem sparkling in its gold'
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quote to show how Turnus is described when he was attacking pallas
'Turnus leapt down from his chariot .... flying at him like a lion which has seen from some high vantage point a bull practicing combat far away on the plain' -contrast - two strong predators fighting against one and other -equal in battle?
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quote to show Turnus lack of pietas - bk 10
'take this message to Evander... I am sending him back the Pallas he deserves' 'his hosptialtiy to Aeneas will cost him dear
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quote to show the death of Pallas
'in desperation Pallas tore the warm blade out of the wound, and blood and life came out together after it, both by the same channel'
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quote to show Aeneas succumbing to his furor after Pallas' death
'Aeneas confronted them in all his fury' -also takes human sacrifice for Pallas funeral -this is inhumane even by roman standards - Roman audiences would have been shocked by this -subversive
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quote to show the effigy of Aeneas
'it was like the flitting shapes which men say are ghosts of the dead, or like the dreams whuc delude our sleeping senses'
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quote to show how the gods pity the latins and trojans fighting one and other
''In the halls of Jupiter the gods pitied the futile anger of the two armies and grieved that men had so much suffering, Venus looking on from one side and Saturnian Juno from the other, while in the thick of all the thousands raged the Fury Tisiphone, pale as death.''
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quote to show how Mezentius shows father/son bond in death
''Protect me, I beg you, from their fury and let me lie in the grave with my son.'' -from his people as he has been a bad ruler
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