The Aneid Flashcards
Sequence of events I
Storm
Welcoming Queen
Story
Recall
Juno Queen of heaven (Aeneas enemy) tries to drive Aeneas’ fleet to destruction using Aeolus the king of the winds power, because she has heard of a prophecy the he will destroy her favourite city Carthage and is outraged at the judgement of the Trojan prince Paris who chose Helen over her as the greatest beauty. However Neptune calms the waves and the Trojan fleet is driven on to the shores of Carthage
Queen Dido welcomes Aeneas in the temple of Juno and his people and influenced by the Gods falls in love with him
At a banquet Aeneas tells of the sack of Troy, the treachery of the Greeks and their wooden horse, death of his wife Creusa who tells him to leave and create a new land in the West and his escape, Hector’s warning in a dream and his wanderings looking for a new home. Dodo falls hopelessly in love with him
Jupiter recalls Aeneas to keep to his course and found the new city, Dido commits suicide in grief
Author
Born/died book
Based on
Virgil
70-19, 29-19 (12 books)
Homer’s Odyssey, Latin poet Ennius and Hellenistic Poet Apollonius of Rhodes, emulates in first six books the Odyssey and in last six books the Iliad
Sequence of events II
Death of father
Consult the occult
Father’s games
The Arrival
The conflict
Aeneas father Anchises dies
Aeneas consults the Cumaean Sybil who leads him through the underworld where he sees Dido who spurns him and his dead father who urges him on to found Rome
Aeneas holds funeral games for his father in Sicily
Aeneas arrives in Italy, allies with the Latins at Latium - King Latinus and Princess Lavinia
Turnus king of the Rutulians is furious as Lavinia was promised to him. Juno incites the Fury Electo (discord) to spur Turnus and Lavinia’s mother Amata to turn against Aeneas
Sequence of events III
A new alliance
Attack
Duel
An alliance is made with the Arcadian King Evander who sits on the future site of Rome and Aeneas is given new armour and a shield that depicts the future history of Rome (Augustus)
An attack is made by Nisus and Euryalus on the Rutulians and a battle follows were Evander’s son Pallas is slaughtered by Turnus and the Volscian warrior princess Camilla who was allied with Turnusalso dies
There is a final duel at Latinus’s city where Aeneas kills Turnus in single combat especially after seeing Pallas’ sword beltand Amata, Lavinia’s mother dies
Main Characters
Aeneas - Trojan noble, King Priam’s second cousin twice removed, son of Aphrodite/Venus - the proto Roman
Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus annd Queen Amata of Lavinium
Pallas, son of King Evander
Ascanius -Aeneas son
Turnus - King of the Retuli main enemy of Aeneas at Latium
Dido - Queen of Carthage
Type of lines in this and in the Odyssey - Dactylic Hexameter or Heroic Hexameter a form of metre (rhythmic structure) used in epic poetry
Laocoon the Trojan priest who tries to warn of the horse but is killed by serpents sent by Minerva who was supporting the Greeks
Charybdis is encountered on the way to Sicilly
Minerva, the Etruscan Goddess of wisdom, arts trade and defence = Athena
Memorable Lines
I sing of arms and of a man
‘Romans lords of the world, the toga wearing race’ book 1 line 282
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Remembered lines
Ill starred Dido, loyal arcates
Why does Juno allow their encounter in the cave yet try to destroy Aeneas at sea.
The Godess ‘Fama/Pheme’ ‘Rumor’ the wrath of Pheme her personification fame and renown ‘a tremendous gossip’ multiple tongues, eyes and ears and feathers Virgil - her feet on he ground her head in the clouds, making the small seem great and the great seem greater!
Iris releases Dido from life
The Cumean Sybil
Aeneas visits the underworld (as did Odysseus)
The fork in the underworld, to the left Tartarus (guarded by the hydra with fifty black gaping jaws and Tisiphone who stands sleepless lashing the damned with a whip, she is one of the furies who punishes crimes of murder) to the right Elysium
Juno summons Alecto (one of the Furies) the bringer of troubles and war and strife, of unceasing anger
Hot headed Turnus the Latin protagonist
Twin gates of war , Consul opens gate and proclaims war
Tiberenus appears to Aeneas suggests a treaty with the Arcadians and Avand
Politics
Legitimised the Judio-Claudian dynasty I.e. Augustus et al as the descendants of Rome’s founders, heroes and Gods of both Rome and Troy
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