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Virgil's Georgics: Lines 457-484 Notes Flashcards

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1
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What is the effect of ‘illa quidem’?

A

Changes the subject and provides emphasis

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2
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Who is the focus moving towards in this section?

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From Orpheus to Eurydice

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What is the effect of the subjunctive ‘fugeret’?

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Implies purpose

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4
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What is the technique of giving inanimate objects human qualities?

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Pathetic fallacy

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5
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Where is pathetic fallacy seen here?

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Lines 461-3

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6
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What reinforces the pathetic fallacy?

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Slow spondees and polysyndeton

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7
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What was Rhodope and Paneae?

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Mountains in Thrace

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8
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Who was Rhesus?

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A famous Thracian leader who took part in the Trojan war

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9
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Who lived in Thrace?

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Ares

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10
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Where is there a hiatus?

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After ‘getae’

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What are the techniques in line 463?

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Hiatus, no strong caesura after third and fourth foot, polysyllabic words and a spondaic fifth foot

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12
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Who were the Getae?

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Northern people, associated with Thrace

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13
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Who was Orithyia?

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Daughter of Erectheus, King of Athens and wife of the north wind

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14
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What is Orpheus doing as a solace for his love?

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Song or poetry

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15
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What techniques are in lines 465-6 and what is the effect?

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Spondees, assonance of long ‘e’ sounds, alliteration of ‘t’ and ‘d’, repetition and direct address to Eurydice all heightens the pathos

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16
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Give two synonyms for the underworld?

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Dis and Erebus

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17
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Where was a fabled entrance to the Underworld?

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Taenarum in South Greece

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18
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What pattern is on line 468?

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Chiasmus

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19
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What makes the chiasmus more impressive?

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Slow movement

20
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What does line 468 allow Virgil to do?

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Blend physical and spiritual appearance of the place

21
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The long ‘i’ in ‘ibant’ picks up what?

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The long ‘i’s on the previous line shows distance and eeriness

22
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Where else is the simile mentioned?

A

Aeneid book 6

23
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What twist has Virgil put on the ghost simile?

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In the Aeneid, ghosts are first compared to leaves and then birds flying to land but here, they flock into the sky and to the trees for shelter

24
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Lines 475-7 are repeated and used where else?

A

Aeneid book 6 and Homer’s Odyssey book 11

25
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What is significant about mothers and husbands mentioned?

A

Relatives they leave behind

26
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What is significant about the unmarried girls?

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Have not had the chances of an adult life

27
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What is interesting about ‘magnanimum’?

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Only adjective in archaic genitive plural form. Appropriate for describing Rome’s past heroes

28
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What is the tone on line 477?

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Extreme pathos and tragedy - not Homeric

29
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What is Cocytus?

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The river of lamentation in the underworld

30
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What two things in the underworld are called Styx?

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A river and where all the rivers converge at a marsh

31
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What is Tartarus?

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Deepest pit of hell but can be used generally

32
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What is personified?

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‘Letus’

33
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What are the Furies?

A

Bringers of doom

34
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What links to Cerberus can be made here?

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Often placated by music

35
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Who is Ixion and what is his story?

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Son of Ares or Phlegyas, king of Lapiths he murdered his father in law. He found no one to purify him until Zeus did but in Olympus, he seduced Zeus’ wife, Hera so Zeus bound him on a wheel of fire that rolled unceasingly through the underworld

36
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What does the strange word order of line 457-8 suggest?

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A sense of panic

37
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What is significant about ‘non vidit’?

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It is literally hiding in the middle of the sentence

38
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What is there anaphora of?

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‘Te’

39
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What is apostrophe?

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Direct address

40
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Where is there an oxymoron?

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‘Lucum’ with a dark grove or light

41
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Where else is there polysyndeton?

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Line 469 and 475

42
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There is a lexical field of what?

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Darkness

43
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Where is a very long sentence?

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Line 473-480

44
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What could the bird simile mean?

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Fleet around, all gods have birds, being driven by exterior force, lots of them

45
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What happened if anyone looked at Cerberus?

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Turned to stone

46
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What is the story of Cerberus and Hercules?

A

Hercules had to overcome Cerberus who guards the entrance to the underworld and bring him up to Earth without using weapons. He asked Hades’ permission and held Cerberus in a chokehold so he submitted

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