Book 6 Flashcards
Aeneas’ prayer to Apollo - turning point
‘for the kingdom I ask for is no more than what is owed to me by the fates’
The sibyl’s prophecy - a second war to rival the Trojan war to come
‘I see wars, deadly wars, I see the Thybris foaming with torrents of blood’
Aeneas gets the golden bough
‘Two doves chanced to come flying out of the sky… Aeneas knew they were his mother’s birds’
‘Aeneas seized the branch… it resisted, but he broke it off impatiently’
The sibyl’s help
‘the huge monster Cerberus lying in a cave in front of them… she threw him a honeyed cake steeped in soporific drugs’
Dido & Deiphobus representing the past
‘Wandering among them… was Phoenician Dido with her wound still fresh’ ‘her face and features moved no more when he began to speak than if she’d had been a block of flint or Parian marble’
‘Here to he saw Deiphobus, son of Priam, his whole body mutilated and his face cruelly torn. The face and both hands were in shreds’
When he had been talking to him too long ‘the Sibyl gave her warning’ for her to move on
People been punished in Tartarus in line with Augustan morality
‘those who in life hated their brothers, beat their fathers, defrauded their dependents, found wealth and brooded over it… men caught and killed in adultery, men who took up arms against their own people and did not shrink from abusing their master’s trust’
Anchises
‘Father Anchises was deep in a green valley, walking among the souls who were enclosed there and eagerly surveying them as they waited to rise to the upper light’
‘You have come at last, I knew your devotion would prevail’
Pageant
‘Come now I shall tell you the glory that lies in store for the sons of Dardanus’
‘Augustus Caesar, son of a god, the man who will bring back the golden years to the fields of Latium… and extend Rome’s empire… to a land beyond the stars… Hercules himself did not make his way to so many lands’
(Pompey and Caesar) ‘O my sons, do not harden your hearts to such wars. You who are sprung from Olympus, you must be the first to show clemency’
Roman pride
‘Your task, Roman, and do not forget it, will be to govern the peoples of the world in your empire. These will be your arts - to impose a settled pattern on peace…’
Exit from the underworld
‘There are two gates of sleep: one is called the Gate of Horn and it is an easy exit for true shades; the other is made all in gleaming white ivory, but through it the powers of the underworld send false dreams up towards the heavens… he sent them on their journey through the Gate of Ivory’
