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‘The Aeneid has far more to say about loss and suffering than the future glory of Rome.’ To what extent do you agree with this statement?
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PLAN - ‘The Aeneid has far more to say about loss and suffering than the future glory ofRome.’ To what extent do you agree with this statement?
Loss and suffering
- Book 6 – carvings of temple of Apollo – Daedalus cannot finish drawing of Icarus as
he is weeping too much
- Book 7 – Juno disrupts fate – she sends allecto to put the scent of the stag under
ascanius’ hunting dogs noses’ – they harm the stag – Italians begin war – Juno opens
doors to the temple of Janus – disrupts peace
- Book 9 – Nisus and Euryalus – killed on mission to find Aeneas – Euryalus killed and
Nisus then throws himself in the way and is also killed – Euryalus’ mother cries on
the sight of his head on the spear of Vulcuns
- Book 10 – Aeneas’ aristeia – shows no clemency – kills magus who is begging – takes
8 sons for sacrifice to pallas
GLORY OF ROME
- Book 6 – Anchises tells aeneas of his descendents – pageant of heros – aeneas
‘kindled in his mind a love of the glory that was to come’
- "Augustus Caesar, son of a God, the man who will bring back the golden years to the
fields of Latium once ruled by Saturn’ – Golden age – promotion of Augustus – Rome
will be timeless and endless (extend Rome’s empire beyond the stars)
- "Your task, Roman, and do not forget it will be to govern the peoples of the world in
your Empire. These will be your arts – and to impose a settled pattern upon peace, to
pardon the defeated and war down the proud" – Civilised, peace, clementia –
Augustan values – mission statement
- Book 7 – Faunus - "The descendants of that stock will see the whole world turning
under their feet and guided by their will"
Interdependent – suffering and loss shows and bring glory of rome
- Book 1 – Aeneas shipwrecked by storm sent by Juno – Men are fearful and aeneas
has to put on a brave face whilst they suffer (says he wishes he died in rome) –
aeneas fears for his son – sends achates to go and find him
- HOWEVER – this results in Venus appealing to Jupiter and he tells her of the
prophecy of aeneas – fated to found great city – Ascanius will found alba longa and a
great ‘empire that will know no end’
- ALSO Neptune carming the storm = stateman carming mob simile – reference to
augustus bring peace in rome
- Book 2 – fall of troy (simile – oak tree falling) – loss of Cruesa
- HOWEVER – leads to aeneas beginning mission – Cruesa tells him to find a new
foreign bride and to found a new city – also he carries out the household gods with
him and his father and son by his side – establishing a new city elsewhere
- Book 4 – Dido commits suicide after aeneas leaves – she knows she has been unloyal
to sycchaes and is scared as she has turned down tribes men e.g. Iarbas
- Aeneas has to fight down anguish in his heart – does not want to leave
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