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the Aeneid scholar quotes - Coggle Diagram
the Aeneid scholar quotes
relationships
father/ son
“The relationship between father and son is the closest bond in the poem” - sowerbry
“Image of Aeneas and Anchises is the ‘Roman patriarchal ideal of Roman society” - sowerbry
gods
Juno
"most of the plot is generated by Juno" - grandsen
“We get the impression that Juno enjoys causing chaos for her own sake” Cowan
"gods don't conform to human mortal standard" - Morrison
roman context
“Book 6 is the most patriotic element” - Williams
civil war influence in “Virgil’s description of violent death… are presented in a way to seem unacceptable” - Patties
structure
“Book 6 is the ‘pivot’ from Odyssean to Iliadic” - Grandsen
books
“One function of Book 8 is to suspend the impending war that will soon happen”
women
dido
‘Her final fall is from regal prosperity to the ultimate misery of suicide’ - Dido
“Book 4 seems to give us the story of Dido where Aeneas has a secondary role”- nelis
dido's dangerous love must inevitably have evoked for the roman reader memory of cleopatra - Camps
Juno
"causes most of the events in the aeneid out of spite" - Cowen
"when dido and camilla are first introduced they act a male figures" - Morgan
Lavinia
"lavinia is the stereotypical roman woman" - Morgan
fate
"fate isn't always portrayed as bitter" - parade of hero
homeric link
“Aeneid 6 is, perhaps more than any other book of the poem, permeated by Homeric derivation and allusion”