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Scholarly views on Aeneid for A level classical civilisation. OCR- The world of the hero exam for 30 marker.
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AeneidAugustan propaganda
Virgil myths are purposeful propaganda, aimed at proving tast Augustus deserved his place in the world
B.B. Powell
Great mistake to think that Aeneas was modelled on Augustus, the character was created to depict whom romans
could model themselves to be
Deryck Williams
Aeneas’ Character
Aeneas has to be the social man, the man who cares for others succeeds in leading his group or his society
Deryck Williams
Aeneas lets furor take over and doesn’t embrace Clementina as the Romans would have liked
Gordon Williams
The portrayal of other nations
Women are used to symbolise their nations – Lavinia as the proper Latin women and Dido as the foreign, wilder and
chaotic one
Yasmin Syed
Fate and Free Will
In the Aeneid the gods work through humans’ wills and desires
Most of the plot of Aeneid is generated by Juno
Grandsen
Says that Virgil uses divine intervention to suggest that we should judge real people with compassion as their actions
are not controlled by themselves but by the gods
Kenneth Quinn
The Aeneid is not a religious poem but fate and god are everywhere, seeming as if it is always in control
David Ross
Women
Virgil associates women as the one that create disorder and men as restoring order e.g. Juno meddling creating storm,
Neptune calming it or Juno/Jupiter in book 12
Ellen Oliensis
Virgil portrays women who step out of traditional gender roles as doomed to fail e.g. Dido and Camilla
Collen Reilly
Aeneas as a hero
No superhuman figure ... he is very much an ordinary mortal.
R.D Williams
Aeneas is a new type of stoic hero willing to achieve his destiny.
Grandsen
Portrayal of War
Aeneas brings peace by bringing war and ending entirely in the Italians. This peace is Aeneas’ contribution to founding
in Rome.
Eve Adler
Family and friendship
Aeneas killing of Turnus can be seen as pious as he had duty towards Pallas and Evander
Grandsen
Father-son relationship is reaffirmed in middle of book 12 – where Aeneas kisses his son before re-entering battle ,
encourages him to learn from him and to remember his farther is Aeneas and his uncle is Hector
Emma Buckley
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