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Aeneid Author
Virgil
Aeneid summary
-Wounded and infected by the poison of Cupid’s arrow, Dido falls in love with Aeneas, but he abandons her, when he is called by the gods to follow his destiny. Distraught, Dido commits suicide.
-1-118: Dido tells her sister, ANNA, of her love for Aeneas. Anna encourages her love. Dido is shown as madly in love with Aeneas.
-119-228: Juno plans Dido’s marriage to Aeneas. A hunt is arranged, a storm comes up, and Dido and Aeneas are driven to the same cave: “That day was her first day of death and ruin.”
229-345: Rumor of their “wedding” reaches IARBAS, one of Dido’s rejected suitors, who prays to Jupiter for help. Jupiter sends MERCURY to remind Aeneas of his duty.
-346-95: Mercury brings Jupiter’s message to Aeneas and he prepares to leave.
-396-545: Dido discovers his plans and rebukes him. Aeneas defends his actions.
-546-971: Dido decides upon suicide, and curses the Trojans. Aeneas and the Trojans flee at Mercury’s urging. Dido kills herself.
Aeneid Intro from the teacher
-written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC and commissioned by Augustus,
- recounts the tale of a group of survivors lead by Aeneas who leave their home city of Troy following its destruction by the Greeks.
- The group are in search of another home in a faraway country. Before arriving to their destination they are thrown off course by a storm and land in Carthage. While the tale is mainly fiction and the story’s details are comprised of myth and legend, Virgil’s contemporaries viewed the epic as true.
Aeneid Characters
Aeneas:
Protagonist, survivor of the destruction of Troy, a fearsome warrior and leader, capable of great compassion and sorrow. The epic is about his journey from Troy to Italy which enables him to fulfill his fate.
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Dido:
Queen of Carthage, her husband was murdered by Pygmalion, her brother. Both she and her city are strong, but her love for Aeneas is her downfall.
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Fama
spreads the news of Dido and Aeneas to Iarabus
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iarabas
Libyan suitor of Dido; informed by Rumour of Dido’s marriage to Aeneas
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iris
Takes the final breath of Dido; messenger for Juno
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Juno
Queen of the gods. Loves Carthage. She arranges marriage of Dido and Aeneas
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Jupiter
King of the Gods. Angry when he learns of the relationship between Aeneas and Dido. Sends his messenger, Mercury
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Sychaeus
first husband of dido
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-Veneus
Goddess of Love. Mother of Aeneas. Agrees (in principle) to the marriage of Dido and Aeneas but has plans to move Aeneas onto Rome
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-Anaa
Didos sister to encourage to having a relationship with Aeneas. Talks about empire
4.1-4.6
Too late. The queen is caught between love’s
pain and press. She feeds the wound within her
veins; she is eaten by a secret flame. Aeneas’
high name, all eh has done, again, again come
like a flood. His face, his words hold fast her
breast. Care strips her limbs of clam and rest.
4.113-119
Her towers rise no more; the young of Carthage
* no longer exercise at arms or build
* their harbors or sure battlements for war;
* the works are idle, broken off; the massive,
* menacing rampart walls, even the crane,
* defier of the sky, now lie neglected.
4.128-228
Dido and the Trojan chieftain have reached the same cave.
Primal Earth and Juno, queen of marriages, together now give
their signal: lightning fires flash, the upper air is witness to
their mating, and from the highest hilltops shout the nymphs.
That was her first day of death and ruin. For neither how
things seem nor how they are deemed moves Dido now, and
she no longer thinks of furtive love. For Dido calls it marriage,
and with this name she covers up her fault
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4.251-259
She [Rumor] sang of what was done
And what was fiction, chanting that Aeneas,
One born of Trojan blood, had come, that lovely
Dido has deigned to join herself to him,
That now , in lust, forgetful of their kingdom,
They take long pleasure, fondling through the winter,
The slaves of squalid cravings.
4.305-315
She [his mother] did not save him twice
from Grecian arms for this—but to be master
of Italy, a land that teems with empire
and seethes with war; to father a race from Teucer’s
high blood, to place all earth beneath his laws.
but if the brightness of such deeds is not
enough to kindle him, if he cannot
attempt the task for his own fame, does he—
a father—grudge Ascanius the walls
of Rome? [Jove speaking]
4.346-63
As soon as his winged feet have touched the
outskirts,
he sees Aeneas founding fortresses
And fashioning new houses. And his sword
Was starred with tawny jasper, and the cloak
That draped his should blazed with Tyrian purple—
A gift that wealthy Dido wove for him;
She had run golden thread long the web.
4.346-63
And Mercury attacks at once. “Are you
now laying the foundation of high Carthage,
as servant to a woman, building her
a splendid city here? Are you forgetful
of what is your own kingdom, your own fate?
The very god of gods, whose power sways
both earth and heaven, sends me down to you
from bright Olympus. He himself has asked me
to carry these commands through the swift air:
what are you pondering or hoping for
while squandering your ease in Libyan fields?
Aeneid Symbols book 4
Wounded doe(slow death):
-Dido is described as being like what kind of wounded animal due to her love for Aeneas?
Storm:
-to bring the two couple together
Rumor:
-character of all the evils
Holy water:
-black
Wine:
dido blood
owl:dido dreads husband voice
tyrian purple drapes:eastern values lazy
Aneid terms
Epic poem:
-An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants.
Telos(ultimate end point of soul):A-B set line Aneaus to found italy
Pietas:God,country family and then if you want think of yourself
Heroides Auther
Ovid
Virgil is the good guy trying to appease caesar and ovid is the bad boy.
Ovid is a contemporary much younger that he was exiled by caesar a poem in error is that ovid got someone involved with caesars family. Was he even exiled
Ovid how to do guide of seduce women
Virgil writes from ovid he is writing to him back
Both write founding of mths
The heroides are all 21 people in womens voice rhyming element we loose
Elegy:mournfal poem
Female loss specifical women love (medea,diodo,letter in poetic form and 25-16 bce
Virgil rewrites homer after not a long time
Heroides important plot point
The Heroides was composed by Ovid and its date of composition is heavily debated by scholars in the field. The set of epistolary poems gives voice to Greek and Roman heroines who have been abandoned, betrayed, and/or mistreated by their heroic lovers.
