Richard Jenkins correct answers Says Virgil wasn't a misogynist in fact the opposite
= through Dido's 'deeply sympathetic portrayal' Virgil wanted to 'enlarge Dido's tragedy to focus upon the woman's point of view'
R D Williams on Aeneas as leader correct answers 'not aiming to achieve persona...
Aeneid scholarship || very Flawless.
Richard Jenkins correct answers Says Virgil wasn't a misogynist in fact the opposite
= through Dido's 'deeply sympathetic portrayal' Virgil wanted to 'enlarge Dido's tragedy to focus
upon the woman's point of view'
R D Williams on Aeneas as leader correct answers 'not aiming to achieve personal satisfaction
by surpassing others in excellence, but to use his qualities in order to achieve their success'
'must not judge Aeneas adversely because we think he ought to be like Achilles.'
(= opposite to odysseus - man of the people, a better leader not just/only a warrior )
Edith Hall on book 20 of Illiad correct answers Aeneas confronts Achilles where he is rescued by
Poseidon who is always saving him - according to Gods in the Iliad Aeneas has to preserve
Trojan line so must survive
whoever Homer was he was foretelling that Virgil would need Aeneas so kept him alive
Edith Hall on Aeneid structure correct answers first half = wandering trying to find homeland
second half = fighting in homeland to establish it as theirs
- inverse of odyssey structure
Hardie on Virgil's predecessors correct answers writers before Virgil 'polished' latin so Virgil
could write in it easily
Hardie on Virgil's success correct answers Virgil made a lot of money, good writers were
rewarded well although Augustus would have also like literature that didnt drum in the ideology
he agreed with like the Aeneid did
Edwards agrees - says the Aeneid endorses Augustus BUT Hardie disagrees - many mdoern
readers think Aeneid is not 100% pro-Augustus or even anti-Augustus
Edwards on Aeneas, father, son image correct answers image of Aeneas with father on his back,
holding son's hand = archetypal image of Aeneas - embodies piety
Edwards on Aeneas as leader correct answers at start of poem Aeneas is weighted down by
despair, isnt chasing glory or wanting to leave Troy - has duty as leader though- to find his
people a new home
Hardie on Aeneas' famous words in Aeneid correct answers 'sunt lacrimae rerum' ' there are tears
of things'
Edith Hall on Dido correct answers there is much scholarly debate as to whether Dido and
Aeneas were actually married in the Aeneid
Aeneid has many dramatic passages/speeches about love but all take place in book with Dido in
it
Edwards on Dido & Cleopatra correct answers Dido and Cleopatra are paralleled - both commit
suicide due to love or lack of) from a man
, Hardie on Virgil's characters correct answers Virgil uses Homeric past to allude subtly to actual
characters in roman history
Aeneas = augustus
Hardie on Aeneas' karabasis correct answers Aeneas going to underworld based directly on
odysseus' journey there - deliberate by Virgil
ody = sees people from past, learns of future
Aeneas = sees people from past and future
Edwards on philosophical dimension of Aeneid correct answers Rome is bound to be founded /
fated to settle there
Edwards on emotion in Aeneid correct answers explores intense emotion, opens with Juno's
anger
Aeneas is constantly put in position where he must overcome emotion and focus on missing of
finding Rome (this starts early on, in Fall of Troy B2)
Edith Hall on women in Aeneid correct answers all powerful women die, Lavinia survives but
she hardly speaks!
The way powerful women are written about means they are more interesting than the men
despite the fact they die - more people know of Dido than Aeneas
Hardie - Camila is the greatest female character after Dido. Both Camila and Dido have long,
painful, eroticised deaths
Edith Hall on Aeneas killing Turnus correct answers Aeneas killing Turnus is to avenge Palace
who was like an adopted son to Aeneas
Hardie on Aeneid as incomplete correct answers Virgil wanted another 3 years to complete
Aeneid - signs of it being incomplete such as half-lines he wouldnt have deliberately left
story of Virgil asking for it to be buried on his death bed and Augustus refusing -
still the ending is one Virgil would have wanted - starts and ends in violence and surprise
Hardie on Augustus / violence correct answers Aeneas' anger/violence at times reflects that of
Augustus
BUT Augustus may have wanted to forget such angry points - changed name from Octavian to
Augustus
= not 100% pro-Augustus
Edith Hall calls the Aeneid correct answers a utopian/ visionary poem
Gerry Nusbaum on book 2 correct answers Throughout book 2 the reality of despair triumphs
over the illusion of hope, the sack of troy gives B2 its grandeur and pathos. Its also the crisis/
turning point in Aeneas' personal story and provides the first hint of a great future ahead for the
Trojans. Promise for this future is confirmed by Creusa w/ calm assurance.
Anchises' stubbornness exposes his family to annihilation.
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