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Rome and its imperial destiny - Coggle Diagram
Rome and its imperial destiny
Starts after the return of the underworld
Parade of heroes
Get some sort of hope for rome and glorification
Augustus is mentioned
Idea of heaven
Encourages Aeneas to fulfill his destiny
brutus and Calimmus
Dido commits suicide
Sacrifice of its destiny
becomes one of the antagonists with preventing Aeneas' destiny
But is still sympathetically portrayed, has some idea of pietas
Dies with a sword (seen as a manly way of dying)
Apparently name meant "terrible" or "agony"
Misleads the audience into thinking that the
Ambiguity of Aeneas at the end (kills Turnus at the end, doesn't have a wedding or a morally good ending)
Six year affair with Dido
Tragic flaw
Forgets destiny - villainises Carthage and justifies its conflict (Mythological influence)
Prevents imperial destony (puts Rome in danger)
Demonstrates myths and how they can be adopted
In glorifivation of rome, attatches roots to make it much more great
is supposed to remind us of Augustus and his piety
Glorifies Rome and reminds the Roman audience of its destiny
Books 8 and 9
Anti war
Glorifies Rome in its strength and allyship
Represents the peril for rome with Turnus
Nisus and Euryalus
Homoeroticism? Love in Rome?
Represent old and young in Rome
Roman forum
Has statues of Aeneas and Iulus
Allusion to alba longa in book 7 (which Iulus would form)
Identifies himself with last name of Rome
Would be brought up in funerals, vital to Roman history
A new hero
Aeneas has a clear sense that rome will be built
"We are making for..." - Book 1
"from this noble stock will be born a trojan Caesar" (book 1)
Model of Julian Law (to an extent, initial danger with Dido)
Reflects Augustus (could be argued as a cyclical structure)
Destiny in the Aeneas
Didactic as a literary epic
Destiny would restore hope for rome after the civil wars
Book 6 and ekphrasis - Glorified battle of actium, ;lucretias death and even the rape of the sabine women (cements destiny)
Aeneid is an ode to Rome
Seen as majestic and glorious
Presents Aeneas as suffering on his labours to presents the endurance of Rome
Is a literary epic rather than an oral epic (unlike two others, Iliad and the Odyssey)