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Aeneid Secondary Scholarship - Coggle Diagram
Aeneid Secondary Scholarship
Aeneas
Sowerby: 'he is dejected by events and simply endeavours to cheer his men. He is involved in little heroic action in the first half of the poem'
Williams: 'We are invited at the very beginning to see in Aeneas a man by no means possessed of superhuman resolution and courage, but rather a frail human whose strength may well prove unequal to his task'
Williams: 'pietas is the special quality of Aeneas'
Turnus
Dido
Williams: 'A vivid picture is built up of Dido's admirable qualities'
Jupiter
Juno
Sowerby: 'The goddess is behind most of the actions that interfere with ... the foundation of Rome'
Williams: 'The hostility of Juno is ever-present in the poem ... she symbolises the apparently senseless and unjustifiable suffering and disaster which strike mortal men'
Venus
Harrison: 'Venus provides her widowed son with the love of a good woman ... here her role as goddess of sex seems to override other caring aspects of her role as mother'
Rome/Propaganda
C. Day Lewis: 'Emperor Augustus ... ordered that the poem should be published with any necessary deletions but no additions'
Sowerby: 'The climactic emphasis on Rome at the end of the opening section suggests an historical concern beyond personal destiny'
Heroism
War
C. Day Lewis: 'Many Romans ... felt a deep sense of national guilt at the constant infighting'
Presentation of Different Nations
Sowerby: '[Carthage] are building a highly ordered and civilised society ... Carthage is therefore comparable in its magnificence, its opulence and its culture to Troy'
Morality
Harrison: 'for Romans the suppression of personal emotion ... in the interest of the state was a key virtue'
Fate/destiny
Sowerby: 'Aeneas' destiny is not a matter of his own choice and will, it is imposed upon him by the gods and entails hardship and sacrifice'
Gods
Family
Women
Homeric influence
Jean Mingay: ''anger' and 'man' (first words of the Iliad and Odyssey) will both be treated in a single poem'