Aeneid scholarship Flashcards
Cowan - Furor
“Furor is the most pervasive, destructive force in the Aeneid”
Farron - Furor
“No character displayed furor more than Aeneas does after the death of Pallas”
Grandsen - furor
“Furor dominates the last four books of the Aeneid and permeates Aeneas’ actions on the battlefield”
Hardie - fate and destiny
“The Aeneid is an epic which defines and justifies the role of Romans in history”
Mackie - fate and destiny
“Aeneas’ general concern to facilitate fate is his cornerstone of his pietas”
Grandsen - Fate and Destiny
“The concept of fate dominates the Aeneid”
R D Williams - Fate and Destiny
“Dido and Turnus are trampled on by the fate of Rome”
Rutherford - The gods
“Women and everyone else are powerless under the forces of the gods”
Coleman - The gods
“The gods’ intervention is used to justify out of character behaviour”
Dr Barker - the gods
“the gods do not provide a solution”
Morgan - women
“Women help generate the plot”
Hardie - women
“Images of dangerous women remind a roman of Cleopatra’s recent threat to Rome’s existence”
Edwards - Women
“Women are vessels into which the gods inject furror”
hall - women
“Women are collateral damage in order to prioritise the father-son relationship that is so important to Romans”
cowan - Roman values and history
“Father son relationships are central to the plot”
