Condensed Aeneid
- Created by: flyingcolours01
- Created on: 15-05-23 15:23
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Key themes:
Father/son
- mezentius "Now you killed my son, you savage, you need not try to frighten me ... i have come to die" - symphathy for a villainous character
- Aeneas&Pallas link to Marcelleus and Augustus
- "Ascanius in an armed embrace and kissed him lightly through his helmet"
- Leaves Dido bcs Mercury reminds him pof Ascanius' fate
- Jupiter &Mercury
- "The relationship between father and don is the closest bond in the Aeneid" (Sowerby)
- "Father-son relationship and suffering are central to the plot" (Cowan)
Furor
- Aeneas killing spree= "hot fury" "he was still begging for mercy, he drove the sword to the hilt " and kills "everything that stood before him"
- venus has to interveen with helken saying "Who are you?"
- Ignores Turnus' mercy "if any thought to my unhgappy father can touch you, i beg of you"
- Turnus- "blazing with rage", wearing the "fatal baldrich", "raging and storming and creating havoc", "mad lust for blood" is a juxtaposition for aeneas' piety
- Symbol of fire- dido (death), ships via women in sciliy
- mezentius ="scorner of gods"
- battle corrupts the young "like a young lion driven mad by blood"
- Juno is "biutter with resentment" for Trojans
- Dido "overwhelmed by grief and possesed by madness"
- "Even the most pious anre driven to furor by war" (Gransden)
- "furor dominatyed the alst four books ... this includes Aeneas' actions" (Gransden)
- "due to furtor no decision Aeneas made at the end wass conscious" (Buckley)
- "furor is the most pervasive and destructive force in the Aeneid" (Cowan)
Pietas
- Aeneas follows Tiber advice in a dream and makes offering to Juno before the battle
- "I am Aeneas known for my devotion"
- Anchises in underworld "I knew your devotion would prevail over the rigor…
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