The Aeneid Flashcards
Aeneas scholars
‘first roman… foreshadows qualities of a different organisation’
‘Homeric heroes are all individualists’ Aeneas = ‘social man’ - Williams
‘Founding father indulging in barbaric practices associated with celts’ - Morgan
‘Is but the shadow of a man’ - page
‘Surrenders to impulse which disgraces his humanity’ - Quinn
Turnus scholar
‘Representing an older individual heroism’ - Quinn
Women - quotes Aeneid
‘Surrounded by a great crowd of warriors’ - dido looks Roman
‘Have not kept faith with the ashes of sychaeus’
‘You have abandoned me’
‘My hands built that pyre’ Anna
‘Burning with all a woman’s passions for spoil and plunder’ camilla
Women scholars for Aeneid
‘run the risk of making Aeneas a villain’ - Du Quesnay
‘our sympathy for Dido is so profound… reject roman mission’ - Williams
Cruesa + Lavinia ‘subvert to masculine plot of history’ - Oliensis
‘Great tribute to married love’ - Jenkyns
‘Have a license to appear in the poem as long as they operate like men’
‘Reverts to stereotype of being a woman’
‘Plot generated or mistreated by women’ - Morgan
‘Women who step out of the traditional gender roles are doomed to fail’ - reilly ko
Portrayal of war — Aeneid scholars
‘Virgil in truth hated war’
‘Sadness he feels about the destruction of human happiness’ - semple
‘The urge to kill in its ugliest form’ - Quinn
War ‘leaves those morally unrecognisable’ - Mendelsohn
‘Virgil’s interest in the artist depictions of fine kill’ - Harrison
Epic style - Aeneid scholars
‘Thematic and structural parallels to Homer are frequent throughout the Aeneid’
‘Transition from the ‘Odyssean’ to the ‘Iliadic’
‘Virgil transformed the old Homeric code into something new and roman’ - gransden
‘depicts scenes which the human eye does not see’
‘in sheer narrative speed and excitement Homer takes the palm’ - Pattie
Dido quotes
‘she would cling to the couch Aeneas had left’
‘forgetting about their kingdoms and becoming slaves of lust’
‘Will you now resist even a love your heart accepts?’
‘Like a wounded doe’
