scholars - Aeneid Flashcards
Saint Beuve suggests that Virgil takes great pride in his…
imitation of Homer
Viktor Pöschl suggests that Virgil shows both a deep respect for Homer while also…
striving to surpass him
Viktor Pöschl thinks Virgil’s concept of war of war was as a sinful mania…
as shown in his description of it
Barchiesi suggests that the shield of Aeneas bridges the gap between poetic tradition and…
the honorific art of Augustan Rome
Viktor Pöschl believes the last half of the poem is symbolic of the civil wars and…
social wars where Rome’s victory is seen as the higher one
Viktor Pöschl believes the deepest tragedy of the epic is that people loves too much…
He believes that love is the motivating force in all that Aeneas does
Andersen suggests that Virgil shows war to brutalise men and…
invites his audience to sympathise with Aeneas’s victims
Andersen argues that the occasions when Aeneas suppresses his emotions are symbolic of him…
aligning himself with order
Andersen sees the death of Dido as a symbol of…
the defeated victims of Roman destiny
Camps argues that Turnus is a character we are…
meant to feel sympathy for
Tarrant argues that the poem is permeated by a revulsion at a…
war that should never have happened
Oliensis suggests that Lavinia and Creusa prove their value by…
submitting to the masculine plot of history
Camps suggests that the gods (other than jupiter) are concerned only with…
independent purposes of their own
Camps says that the gods appear irresponsible and heartless and this creates…
great pathos in the plight of the mortals they effect
Tarrant suggests that the story of Aeneas, a youthful hero chosen by the gods to lead a race facing ruin…
must reflect Augustus while also conferring legitimacy on his sole rule
