Aenied scholarship

Question 1

Jenkyns on Creusa

Answer 1

Creusa is a kind of ideal roman matrona, who allows Aeneas to move on

Question 2

Ellen Oliensis on women

Answer 2

tends to mean that women make trouble and men restore order

Question 3

Morton Braund on Juno

Answer 3

-the aeneid can also be read as the story of the wrath of Juno

Question 4

Edith hall on Aeneas

Answer 4

Aeneas is a pious hero

Question 5

Nusbaum on Aeneas in bk 2

Answer 5

did absolutly everything that he could do to help before leaving troy for italy

Question 6

Nusbaum on book 2

Answer 6

the end of Troy becomes, in Virgil, the beginning of Rome; from the ashes of Troy will rise the Phoenix of Rome

Question 7

Buckley on the death of Turnus

Answer 7

“For when Aeneas kills Turnus, Virgil employs the verb, condere, which means not just ‘to stab’, but also ‘to found’. When Aeneas puts Turnus to the sword, he sets in motion the foundation of the Roman race

Question 8

Olinesis on Mercury book 4 quote - women are ‘unstable creatures, always changing’

Answer 8

-‘statement relflects gender norms of Roman society, which emphasised the irrationality and instability of women’

Question 9

Connolly on women and war

Answer 9

-‘women of the aeneid are deeply affected by the ravages of war, both as direct targets of violence and witnesses to its horrors’