the Aeneid theme 6: moral values (pietas, furor) || with 100%
Errorless Solutions.
what is pietas correct answers - dutifulness
- sacrificing one's own wishes in the service of those relying on you or that deserve it
- social in focus, rather than individualistic
what four things should people show pietas to correct answers 1. the gods
2. the family (parents and children)
3. dependants
4. patria or homeland
what is furor correct answers - a state of mind and behaviour characterised by impulsive and
irrational rage, usually triggered by a cutting emotional experience
- fury, madness, frenzy
- acts alongside the concept 'ira' (anger)
how does the public message of the aeneid view pietas correct answers - it views pietas as a good
thing
- since pietas was one of the core virtues that augustus claimed for himself to bolster his
legitimacy
key passages showing pietas as a virtue correct answers - book 1 proem
- book 1 venus' speech to jupiter
- book 2 aeneas fleeing troy
- book 4 aeneas resists dido
- book 6 aeneas meets anchises in the underworld
how does the book 1 proem show pietas as a virtue correct answers - aeneas is 'noted for virtue'
and 'enduring', able to found a new city because of his pietas
- he took his gods to latium (pietas to the gods)
- formation of latin people (patria, pietas to dependants)
how does the book 1 venus' speech to jupiter show pietas as a virtue correct answers - aeneas'
actions led jupiter to promise that new leaders would rise
- antenor's pietas towards founding padua and making home for teucerians allowed him to live in
tranquil peace
- aeneas is still virtuous despite his suffering, seen as noble
how does the book 2 aeneas fleeing troy scene show pietas as a virtue correct answers - aeneas is
virtuous because of his family pietas
> father-son: sharing risk and salvation by carrying anchises on his back, holding iulus
- he respects the gods by travelling to their temples, carrying sacred objects
- aeneas is fearful for his companions, pietas to dependants
, - this is a virtue as his good deeds are all selfless in nature, allowing him to progress further
towards his mission and the great founding of rome
how does the book 4 aeneas resisting dido show pietas as a virtue correct answers - aeneas is
virtuous because he rejects his own selfish desires (staying with dido) for the sake of others
- the will of the gods prevents him from going, moral priorities
- he struggles greatly to resist dido - his pietas allows him to thus furthering the mission and
proving to be a good trait to have
how does the book 6 aeneas meeting anchises in the underworld show pietas as a virtue correct
answers - the loyalty of aeneas towards his father (pietas) allowed him to overcome the harsh
struggles he endured
- libya didn't harm him because his moral values allowed him to resist (dido)
- his father drive him to reach the most hopeful part of his journey (pietas to family)
- shows with pietas, your sufferings pay off
what scholars argue there is no private voice undermining pietas correct answers - MCLEISH
and STAHL
- to them, virgil holds up pietas as a great roman value / virtue, that aeneas and augustus are the
models of it
what scholar questions virgil's message about pietas and how correct answers - WILLIAMS
- believes that virgil hints at a more subversive, private message in the text
- pietas is questioned or even outright condemned
- supposedly, this was the view virgil was sympathetic to, but since he was writing in a sensitive
political context, he expressed it ambiguously
what scholar questions aeneas' problematic and destructive pietas correct answers - FARRON
- aeneas has problematic and destructive pietas that is cold and emotionally lacking
- he prioritises his ideology over human situations like didos suffering
> two people are torn apart by an ideology that may be wrong
- aeneas = rome, dido = carthage, which has been destroyed and for what?
counter argument to farron's view correct answers - we like dido but we also sympathise with
aeneas
- he isn't cold, he yearns to comfort her but couldn't
- virgil seems to praise aeneas' pietas
- oak tree simile: he stays rooted but he is in an emotional struggle to help her
what key passages question pietas correct answers - book 4 didos suffering
- book 6 the exit from the underworld
- book 10 aeneas' rampage
- book 12 the death of turnus
how does the book 4 didos suffering question pietas correct answers - virgil may be undermining
pietas here by detailing how it negatively affects dido
Errorless Solutions.
what is pietas correct answers - dutifulness
- sacrificing one's own wishes in the service of those relying on you or that deserve it
- social in focus, rather than individualistic
what four things should people show pietas to correct answers 1. the gods
2. the family (parents and children)
3. dependants
4. patria or homeland
what is furor correct answers - a state of mind and behaviour characterised by impulsive and
irrational rage, usually triggered by a cutting emotional experience
- fury, madness, frenzy
- acts alongside the concept 'ira' (anger)
how does the public message of the aeneid view pietas correct answers - it views pietas as a good
thing
- since pietas was one of the core virtues that augustus claimed for himself to bolster his
legitimacy
key passages showing pietas as a virtue correct answers - book 1 proem
- book 1 venus' speech to jupiter
- book 2 aeneas fleeing troy
- book 4 aeneas resists dido
- book 6 aeneas meets anchises in the underworld
how does the book 1 proem show pietas as a virtue correct answers - aeneas is 'noted for virtue'
and 'enduring', able to found a new city because of his pietas
- he took his gods to latium (pietas to the gods)
- formation of latin people (patria, pietas to dependants)
how does the book 1 venus' speech to jupiter show pietas as a virtue correct answers - aeneas'
actions led jupiter to promise that new leaders would rise
- antenor's pietas towards founding padua and making home for teucerians allowed him to live in
tranquil peace
- aeneas is still virtuous despite his suffering, seen as noble
how does the book 2 aeneas fleeing troy scene show pietas as a virtue correct answers - aeneas is
virtuous because of his family pietas
> father-son: sharing risk and salvation by carrying anchises on his back, holding iulus
- he respects the gods by travelling to their temples, carrying sacred objects
- aeneas is fearful for his companions, pietas to dependants
, - this is a virtue as his good deeds are all selfless in nature, allowing him to progress further
towards his mission and the great founding of rome
how does the book 4 aeneas resisting dido show pietas as a virtue correct answers - aeneas is
virtuous because he rejects his own selfish desires (staying with dido) for the sake of others
- the will of the gods prevents him from going, moral priorities
- he struggles greatly to resist dido - his pietas allows him to thus furthering the mission and
proving to be a good trait to have
how does the book 6 aeneas meeting anchises in the underworld show pietas as a virtue correct
answers - the loyalty of aeneas towards his father (pietas) allowed him to overcome the harsh
struggles he endured
- libya didn't harm him because his moral values allowed him to resist (dido)
- his father drive him to reach the most hopeful part of his journey (pietas to family)
- shows with pietas, your sufferings pay off
what scholars argue there is no private voice undermining pietas correct answers - MCLEISH
and STAHL
- to them, virgil holds up pietas as a great roman value / virtue, that aeneas and augustus are the
models of it
what scholar questions virgil's message about pietas and how correct answers - WILLIAMS
- believes that virgil hints at a more subversive, private message in the text
- pietas is questioned or even outright condemned
- supposedly, this was the view virgil was sympathetic to, but since he was writing in a sensitive
political context, he expressed it ambiguously
what scholar questions aeneas' problematic and destructive pietas correct answers - FARRON
- aeneas has problematic and destructive pietas that is cold and emotionally lacking
- he prioritises his ideology over human situations like didos suffering
> two people are torn apart by an ideology that may be wrong
- aeneas = rome, dido = carthage, which has been destroyed and for what?
counter argument to farron's view correct answers - we like dido but we also sympathise with
aeneas
- he isn't cold, he yearns to comfort her but couldn't
- virgil seems to praise aeneas' pietas
- oak tree simile: he stays rooted but he is in an emotional struggle to help her
what key passages question pietas correct answers - book 4 didos suffering
- book 6 the exit from the underworld
- book 10 aeneas' rampage
- book 12 the death of turnus
how does the book 4 didos suffering question pietas correct answers - virgil may be undermining
pietas here by detailing how it negatively affects dido
