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Books 7 and 8 of the aeneid - Coggle Diagram
Books 7 and 8 of the aeneid
Set up the war in book 9 for the aeneid
War
Starts with the killing of sacred dear
Called on by Sylvia
Makes it the Iliadic part of the poem (Proem)
The
Love
Could be the cause of war
Still mainly seen in women who go mad (like "bacchants", Amata goes off dancing in the mountains)
Contest for Lavinia (as turnus wants to marry her)
Julian laws and danger of love?
Familial love (Aeneas and Iulus0
Book events
Book 7 events
Arrives through the mouth of Tiber
Sends emissaries to king Latinus (who initially gives them aid)
Aeneas arrives at Rome (at that time Latium)
When confronted with war, Latinus closes the door
Book 8 events
Aeneas goes to pallas and Evander
Meets Pallas, Evander has to be carried off as he's worried for Pallas
Supposed to recall Thetis asking for help in the Iliad
Evander will send 200 horseme
Divine intervention
The Fates and Turnus (incite furor in him)
Juno sends allecto (the fate)
Iulus points out about eating the tables (pointing out that they have fulfilled the harpies fate)
Allecto embodies furor
Gods are connected with roman values (can help, sometimes a threat)
Tiber speaks to Aeneas (will found his own city)
Aeneas
Rival is now replaced with turnus
Heroism is under threat
Threat to piety in war
Could be seeing love as just practical (still under pietas + julian law)
Has his shield created for him by VUlcan (has all of the events of rome on there; EKPHRASIS)
Glory to Rome
Allusions to Rome in Pallantium
Glorifying Augustus (enlarges him as mighty and a justice-carrier)
Allyship, creates battle for peril for Aeneas
Cleopatra and "wealth of the barbarian world"