This document provides a clear layout of Virgil's Aeneid - describing the most important events from each of the 12 chapters. This does not cover the unprescribed chapters, but most are colour-coded by theme and include an easy guide in order to help you coordinate your own notes.
Fate and destiny
Immortals
Family and friendship
Relationships between men and women
Relationships between children and parents
Part played by women
Portrayal of war
Portrayal of different nations Trojans
Greeks
Carthaginians
Italians
Aeneas Turnus
Dido
Aschines
Book Key themes Summary
, Storm and Banquet - Something
- Goes to Aeolus, god of the winds – offers a nymph for his help
- Juno attempted to sink the boats, interrupted by Neptune
- Aeneas and his crew land at Libya, have funeral feast
- Venus laments to Jupiter
- Jupiter consoles Venus, & gives her the details of what Aeneas will do in his life
- Venus meets Aeneas whilst he searches the land, tells him the story of Dido
- A tells V a modest and short version of his life story
- She says that he is not hated by the gods, and tells him the winds have changed
- A recognised V to be his mother
- Tyrians building friezes w depiction of Trojan war
- Entrance of Dido
- Comrades of A condemn behaviour of Carthaginians, weren’t allowed to moor –
D says this is just because the city is new, Aeneas introduces himself
- She emphasises ancestral links and similarities in the fortune they have both
endured, let him into the city & made offerings
- V gets Cupid to make D fall in love w A
Fall of Troy - A’s introduction to the misery of the story
ARE WE MEANT TO - Greeks were going home, had left a votive offering
BELIEVE AENEAS - Thymoetes said to take it in, Lacoon objected and threw a spear
IN BOOK 2?? - Sinon (Greek) is found and tells the story of why he doesn’t like the Greeks
- Said that he was going to be the human sacrifice, Trojans accept him
- Sinon makes an oath, swearing if Trojans protect him, he would tell secrets
- Said the gods no longer favoured Greeks because of iconoclasm
- Trojans accept this, and take the horse into their city
- Sinon lets the men in and they kill the guard
- Hector appears to Aeneas in a dream, tells him to take the sacred gods
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