Book 8 Flashcards
Speech from Tiber (the god of the river) showing that Aeneas is inextricably linked to the landscape & that it is accepting him in
‘This is the home that is decreed for you.’
We first see the site of Rome - humble origins highlighting just how far it has come (think Augustus’ building programme)
‘What Roman power has no raised to the heights of the sky, in those days was a poor land ruled by Evander.’
Insight into the characters of Pallas and Evander
‘Not so Pallas. Boldly, he told them not to disturb their holy feast, and seizing a weapon he rushed off to face the strangers.’
Evander’s speech to Aeneas ‘bravest of Trojans, I welcome you with great joy… how well do I recall… the very voice and features of the great Anchises’
Hercules and the Cacus
‘Hercules.. brought into the light of heaven the stolen cattle whose theft Cacus had denied, and dragged the foul corpse out by the feet.’
Reference to the Golden Age
‘Saturn… his reign was what men called the golden age’
Site of Rome - humble origins
‘cattle were everywhere, lowing in the Roman Forum’
Mezentius’ crimes
‘foul murders… barbaric crimes, committed by this tyrant’
‘He even devised a form of torture whereby living men were roped to dead bodies… to die a lingering death oozing with putrefying flesh in this cruel embrace.’
The shield of Aeneas
‘The God of Fire, with his knowledge of the prophets… had laid out the story of Italy and the triumphs of the Romans’
‘The mother wolf…’
‘The violent rape of the Sabines…’
‘Mettus… Porsenna… Tarquin… Cocles… Cloelia…’
Augustus in the centre
‘One one side was Augustus Caesar, leading the men of Italy into battle alongside the Senate and People of Rome.’
‘On the other side, with the wealth of the barbarian world and warriors in all different kinds of armour, came Antony in triumph from the shores of the red sea…’
‘all manner of monstrous gods levelled their weapons at Neptune and Venus and Minerva.’
‘But Caesar was riding into Rome in triple triumph.’
