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Modern Scholarship in the Aeneid - Coggle Diagram
Modern Scholarship in the Aeneid
Harrison
calls Juno a 'typical soap opera bitch'
Jenykyns
'Dido is not only a proud queen but also an ordinary woman with ordinary hopes and desires
'It is the constant awareness of duty and responsibility that makes Aeneas a new kind of epic hero
'The contradiction Aeneas' actions make him difficult to like but certainly make him human'
Quinn
'If Virgil decided to tell the story of a war and a man, it was because he knew his audience would read the story with another man and another war in mind'
'When everything that is said about Augustus is put together, it amounts to precious little'
Sowerby
'Turnus becomes the Trojans principle antagonist and his death constitutes the climax of the poem'
'The relationship between father and son is the closest bond in the poem'
'Aeneas survives not by his own will and enterprise but because he is the chosen instrument of divine will'
Cowen
'Father-son relationships and suffering are central to the plot'
Hardie
'As modern readers Dido evokes our sincerest sympathy'
Gibson
'Displaying his piety in carrying his father on his shoulders away from Rome'
Pattie
'Aeneas does in warfare what has to be done but he is generally deeply unhappy about it'
Grandsen
'The concept of fate dominates the Aeneid'