Book Summary Flashcards
What happens in book one?
Introduction to Juno
Zeus assures Venus of Aeneas future/romes future
They arrive in Carthage
Cupid comes down and makes Dido fall in love
Dido asks to hear the stories
What happens in book 2?
Story of choice destruction
Sinon and the Trojan horse
Ghost of Hector urges Aeneas to leave
And refuses to leave until there’s an omen
Aeneas loses cruesa
What happens in book 3?
They go to Thrace and Delos
Apollo gives the prophecy of settling on his ancestors land (they think it’s Crete but a plague strikes)
The household God tell Anas he’s meant to go to Italy (in a dream)
They attacked by harpies who issued the prophecy/curse
Aeneas gets the instruction to find the Sybil
They dodge Scylla and Charybdis and visit Polyphemus’ Island
Anchises dies
What happens in book 4?
Juno takes advantage of Didos love
Marries Dido to Aeneas
Jupiter sends mercury to remind A of his fate
Rumour tells Dido he is leaving
Dido kills herself and vows their people will always be at war
What happens in book 5?
They go to Sicily
A year ago in Sicily Anchises was buried so they host funeral games
What happens in book 6?
They see the Sybil and Apollo prophesies the war
They go to the underworld
He sees Dido and his father
He sees the Roman triumph
He returns to the world of the living through Ivory Gates
What happens in book 7?
They reach the River Tiber and eat their plates
We meet Latin and Lavinia and see the prophecy of marriage
Trojans offer Latin gifts of friendship
Allecto puts furor in Amatta and Turnus
Juno, open the gates of Janus
What happens in book 8?
Tiber appears to him in a dream
Tells Aeneas to seek help from Evander
Vanders people are feasting to celebrate Hercules
We got a tour of Roman landmarks
Venus charms Vulcan to make weapons for Aeneas
What happens in book 9?
Turn his marches on the Trojan fought and burns their ships but they turn to sea nymphs
Nisus and euryalus’ story
Tis makes it inside the Trojan for and barely escapes (through the river Tiber)
What happens in book 10?
Assembly of the gods
Aeneas returns
Pallas kills many people until Turnus kills him
Awneas tears of pallas’ death
Mzentius is saved by his son but then gets killed anyway
What happens in book 11?
Funeral rights both sides bury their dead
Camilla’s story
Evanders grief
What happens in book 12?
Single combat between t and A
Rutilian throws a spear at Aeneas
Turnus rampages juturna pretends to be his chariot driver and leads him away from battle
Amata hang herself thinking t is dead
Juno accepts fate
At his death, Turnus ask for mercy Aeneas almost granted until he sees pallas’ belt
