Aeneid

Question 1

Pillinger - trojan women

Answer 1

The trojan women are stuck in the past and unable to move on - the women are fixated on origins whereas men are fixated on ends (andromache, trojan women)

Question 2

Pillinger - Sibyl

Answer 2

The Sibyl basically writes books 8-12 before they happen.

Question 3

West - Dido

Answer 3

Dido is being ‘crushed between two godesses’.

Question 4

Hardie - prophetic passages

Answer 4

The great prophetic passages can be understood as pessimisstic and macellus’ death in particular is a ‘mournful coda’ to book 6.

Question 5

Hardie - juggarnaut

Answer 5

Amata and Turnus are ‘victims to the juggarnaut of Rome’s imperial destiny.

Question 6

Hardie - Cleopatra

Answer 6

A roman audience will always be reminded of cleopatra by Dido as she is an ‘image of a dangerous woman’

Question 7

Granden - Juno

Answer 7

Most of the plot of the Aeneid is generated by Juno, both halves of the book begin with a soliloquy from her.

Question 8

Auden - muse

Answer 8

Virgil is betraying his muse and ‘selling out’, art should be detatched from political position.

Question 9

Harrison - lonliness

Answer 9

Aeneas is always a ‘man of lonliness’.

Question 10

Harrison - frivolity

Answer 10

Comments on the divine frivolity of the Gods and calls juno a ‘soap opera bitch’.

Question 11

Griffin - foil

Answer 11

Argues that Turnus represents a ‘kind of foil’ to Aeneas where he represents the older kind of heroism found in homeric ideals.