The Aeneid Flashcards
Anchises’ advice to Aeneas
‘pardon the defeated and war down the proud’
Why is Juno angry at the Trojans?
Rome will crush her favourite city Carthage, Greeks died at Troy, judgement of Paris, Ganymede was a Trojan
Opening of the proem
‘I sing of arms and of the man’
The parade of heroes in Elysium
Alban kings, Romulus, Julius Caesar, Augustus, kings of Rome, Roman Republic history
Evander’s Rome
shows the Lupercal, the Asylum, the house of Tarpeia and the Capitol, cattle in the place of the Roman Forum- shows Augustus’ achievements now
What is on the shield of Aeneas?
Battle of Actium in the middle, around the edge: Romulus, the Sabines, Mettus and Tullus, Tarquin, Tartarus, the Capitol
Aeneas human sacrifice
Plans to sacrifice 8 captives- ‘to sacrifice them as offerings to the shade of Pallas and pour their captive blood on the flames of his pyre.’
Aeneas’ impiety
Kills a priest of Apollo and a priestess of Diana Trivia on his Pallas rampage
Lausus’s death
sacrifices himself for his father Mezentius. Sympathy for Mezentius
Sacrifices and Augustus
Augustus sacrificed humans at Perusia
What duty does Evander lay upon Aeneas?
kill Turnus- ‘owes the life of Turnus to the son and to the father.’
Word for catalogue of one person killing lots
aristeia
Aeneas’ promise if he is victorious over the Latins
will marry Lavinia but leave them alone, won’t order Italians to obey Trojans, won’t be a king. Latinus will keep political and military authority but Aeneas will be in charge of religion
Father/son relationships
Priam/Polites Mezentius/Lausus Evander/Pallas Daunus/Turnus Anchises/Aeneas Aeneas/Pallas Aeneas/Ascanius
Competing with Homer
Where Achilles chases Hector three times around the walls of Troy, Aeneas chases Turnus five times around the Latin plain
Which books are flashbacks?
2 and 3
Word for ‘speaking out’ and examples
ekhphrasis. The sculpture on the Carthaginian’s temple to Juno, the sculpture on the temple to Apollo at Cumae, Aeneas’ shield, the baldric of Pallas, Turnus’ shield
Similarities between Homer and Virgil
both use: similes, epithets, repeated phrases, parallel scenes and characters
Mezentius as a horrible leader
Living men roped to dead bodies to die a lingering death- forced out by his people, the Etruscans
What causes Camilla’s death?
‘burning with all the woman’s passion for spoil and plunder’- embroidered cloak and tunic
Book 4 links to tragedy
Opening scene between Dido and Anna is like the one in ‘Antigone’ and the ending is like the end scene of ‘Hippolytus’. Dido is said to be mad like Pentheus and Orestes. Agon between Dido and Aeneas is like that of Jason and Medea. Adds a level of dramatic irony.
Things/ people seen in the underworld
Grief, Revenge, War etc. personified.
Monsters: Scylla, centaurs, Lernean Hydra.
Palinurus, Dido
Aural imagery of Tartarus: chains, people being whipped, groans.
Mythological figures: Tiryos, Capiths,Theseus.
Description of the reunion with Anchises
Tried to embrace him three times (like Odysseus and Anticleia
Mini-episode book 6
Ekphrasis of grove of Diana Trivia: Icarus and Daedalus
