Virgil's Georgics: Lines 380-410 Notes Flashcards
Where else is Proteus’ story told?
Homer’s Odyssey 4 (pre Virgil) and Ovid’s Metamorphoses ( post Virgil)
What is ecphrasis?
Setting a scene by painting a picture for the audience and then locating the action within
Where is ecphrasis seen here?
Lines 387-390 ‘est… hic’
Where is the Isle of Carpathos?
Between Crete and Rhodes in the Mediterranean sea south west of Turkey
Where is the Carpathian sea?
Around the Island of Carpathos
What is Proteus’ chariot pulled by?
Sea horses
How does Virgil describe the sea horses?
Using hendiadys
What are the sea horses described as?
A cross between fish and horses
Emathia roughly describes which area?
Thessaly and Macedonia
What was Pallene?
A town in south east Macedonia
According to myth, what does Proteus have to do with Pallene?
It was his homeland or he moved there from Egypt
Who is Nereus?
A major deity of the ocean. Father of the Nereids
What does ‘trahantur’ in this instance?
‘Are destined’
How is ‘trahantur’ a metaphor?
Drawing out the threads of fate
What role does Proteus act for Neptune?
The head herdsman for Neptune’s fish flock
What does Proteus actually give Aristaeus?
The cause of the issue, not the remedy
What is the remedy to Aristaeus’ problem?
The Begonia method
What does the heat of Proteus’ environment contrast with?
The cold environment of Orpheus landscape
Who influenced this passage?
Homer
What does this passage start with?
Calm and serene description of nature
How does the calm and serene description of nature change?
It becomes chaotic and unnatural when Proteus awakes
What is the basic meaning of ‘horridus’? What is the meaning used?
Bristling and bristling
What technique is used as Proteus shapeshifts?
Polysyndeton
What does the polysyndeton do?
Builds up terrifying images as Proteus shapeshifts
