Book Summaries Flashcards
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BOOK 1: OVERVIEW
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- Themes introduced: war, man, fate
- Juno is angry at the trojans as they sail towards Italy
- Juno calls on Aeolus to create a storm on the Trojans and they eventually reach land: the shore of Libya
- Venus pleads to Jupiter to end the Trojans’ suffering but he assures her that they will reach Italy: fate says so
- Mercury is sent down by Jupiter to make sure Carthage is hospitable to the Trojans
- In the woods Venus appears to Aeneas in disguise as a Spartan girl out hunting: she explains how Dido had become queen
- Dido welcomes Aeneas and his men
- Venus sends down Cupid (looking like Ascanius) to infect Dido with lust for Aeneas
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BOOK 1: Why is Juno angry at the Trojans (3 points)
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- Descendants of Troy are fated to destroy her favourite city, Carthage (i.e. the punic wars - Rome vs Carthage)
- The judgement of Paris: Paris chose Venus over her in a beauty contest
- Juno is angry at Jupiter for taking Ganymede (a Trojan Prince)
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BOOK 1: Jupiter’s prophecy
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- Aeneas will win a great battle and found the city of Lavinium
- his son, Ascanius, also known as Iulus, will found Alba Longa, near the future site of Rome
- and Romulus will eventually found Rome itself, which will conquer the world, including Greece.
- Juno will come to love the Romans
- at last a Trojan caesar named Julius, after Aeneas’s son Iulus — not Julius Caesar, but his heir by adoption, Augustus — will bring an age of peace
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BOOK 1: extended description of a work of art: technical name + where is it and what does it show
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EKPHRASIS
Inside a temple built in honour of Juno
shows scenes that depict the Trojan war - trojan suffering
