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Gransden [on Homeric gods' characterisation] correct answers sheer frivolity and irresponsibility
Camps correct answers it is indeed clear that Aeneas is intended at times to evoke Octavian
Pillinger [women's role] correct answers nothing but plot devices within the epic
Oliensis [differen...
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Gransden [on Homeric gods' characterisation] correct answers sheer frivolity and irresponsibility
Camps correct answers it is indeed clear that Aeneas is intended at times to evoke Octavian
Pillinger [women's role] correct answers nothing but plot devices within the epic
Oliensis [difference between the motivations of women and men] correct answers women tend
towards origins, men are orientated towards ends
Gransden [on how the gods' intervention works] correct answers the gods work through human
wills and desire
Gransden [on fate and Jupiter] correct answers will of Jupiter as the expression of fate
Gransden [on Virgil's problem] correct answers he did not wish to devalue the sturdy heroism of
the aboriginal Italians
Gransden [on Juno's anger] correct answers she does not care what it costs as long as she has her
way
Gransden [on what Juno embodies] correct answers Juno embodies the dreaded spirit of civil
strife
Pöschl [on hatred of Juno] correct answers It is most significant that her passionate hatred really
stems from love
Pöschl [on the epic of love] correct answers it's deepest tragedy is that people loved too much
Pöschl [on Jupiter] correct answers enthroned above suffering and passion
Pöschl [on Juno and Jupiter's conflict] correct answers symbolic of the ambivalence in history
and human nature
Pöschl [on Virgil's not-bias approach] correct answers The poet's heart beats for both parties.
Pöschl [on Turnus] correct answers He dies a hero
R.D. Williams [on Venus] correct answers strange mixture of the mother-goddess and of the
reckless Greek goddess Aphrodite
R.D. Williams [on stoicism] correct answers the key stoic belief was that men should live
secundum Naturam, never questioning why the divine plan involves human suffering
, R. D. Williams [on Juno's capabilities] correct answers brilliantly rhetorical
David O. Ross [on Juno] correct answers motivated as a Homeric hero
David O. Ross [on the gods and man] correct answers Divine action is human action in a pure
state
David O. Ross [on Venus' care for Aeneas] correct answers only because he is necessary to her
glorious future
R.D. Williams [on the problem with Dido] correct answers damaged our confidence in the
validity of Rome's mission
R.D. Williams [on Turnus and Dido] correct answers Turnus in many essentials resembles Dido
Cowan [on the impiety of Mezentius] correct answers self-sufficiency
Cowan [a major theme of the Aeneid] correct answers what makes a good ruler, the whole poem
explores how good a ruler he is
Cowan [on Mezentius' leadership skills] correct answers the worst of all
Cowan [how is Mezentius an allusion to Polyphemus when he pets Rhaebus?] correct answers
touching humanity
Cowan [how are Nisus and Euryalus a response to the Symposium?] correct answers Phaedrus
seems to be proved wrong
Cowan [what theme/motif signifies someone's death later on?] correct answers the classic
mistake of stripping your enemy
Cowan [how does the episode of Nisus and Euryalus confuse the genres of the epic?] correct
answers Virgil is forever confusing the tone of his poem by introducing allusions to other genres
Feeney [how does Virgil employ another type of literary tradition?] correct answers Vergil can
even make it read like a book of history at times
Neitzche [the tradition of ancient historians] correct answers Events precede causes
Feeney [how is the epic like a historical document?] correct answers Aeneas (the aition) and
Augustus (the telos) are joined together as the cause and the purpose
Feeney [how does Virgil nod towards his use of the historical writing tradition - Actium?]
correct answers an attempt to take Augustus out of the flux of time
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