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Books 1 and 2 - Coggle Diagram
Books 1 and 2
Venus' favour of Aeneas
Her son with Anchises
Tells him of his fate and about Dido
Sums up Dido's backstory and past
Escaping alone, founded carthage
Husband was killed at an altar
then won't be distracted or lured by the Gods
Won't be distracted or lured by the Gods
Makes Dido enamoured with Aeneas through cupid coming in disguise as Iulus (Aeneas' son)
Makes carthans more hospitable
Juno's hatred for Aeneas
tells Aeolus to start a storm in the middle of the
He is on the Trojan side
"unforgetting anger"
Trojans were fated to destroy Carthage
Kept her armour and chariot there
Didn't want war to "go to waste"
Aeneas as a leader and a father
Model man
In book 1 he hunts a large stag for his men (pietas and devotion to his crew)
tells men "call back your courage"
Speech humanises him and creates pathos for him
Virgil calls on Calliope, the muse of epic poetry
Homeric structure
Has written the epic of Rome and starts with Aeneas
"of the arms and of a man fated into exile"
Homeric influence in glorifying his protagonist
Role of the gods
Venus makes a complaint to Jupiter
Jupiter favours the trojans
Has done nothing because of a pact he has made with Thetis
Zeus helps the Trojans get to Carthage with the
Juno vs Venus
Still remembering the golden apple context
Greek vs trojan (war never ends on Olympus)
Cupid disguises himself as Ascanius (while he is asleep) and makes Dido fall in love with Aeneas
Aeneas lament in book 1
not feeling very heroic
a mix of furor and pietas
"Now it is my fate to die a pitiful death"
"How I wish I'd died and met my fate."
Homeric influence
Reversal of Hector and Achilles in the beginning of book 1 with the storm
Less homeric influence with the humanisation of Aeneas
Also contemplates suicide like Odysseus
Troy
Ekphrasis of it on Dido's walls
Aeneas starts "weeping" at the sight of Hector and Priam
Sees priam's expression and men of troy
penthisalea - Represents Dido as they both commited suicide "nobly" and were queens in powerful countries
The fall of Troy covers the whole of book 2
patriotism and reflecting on the past
Mythological influence of rome
Furor vs pietas
Personification of "furor impius"
Sacriligeous fury us important as it shows extremity in one of the most important values of Rome