Aenied Flashcards

(8 cards)

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Principled Hero - to see his father - Alongside established heros Odysseus, herucles

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Augustus restored to Golden age

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Cemented Ceasar claim descendant from Venus

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Leaves old homeric values for romanic values

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doesnt free himself from furor of past - Sibil has to distract Aeneas so he doesnt dwell on past, exit out of false dreams means that the hope of empire will never be realised,
Shades remind us of human cost of Rome
Anchises turns Aeneas into Augustus and his values

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two voices - public celebration of Rome, Private lament of cost of founding Rome

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Romulus panel omits the Fratricide
Manlius later causes uprising and he is executed (thrown of tarpein rock) Omitted
If this is omitted from edge stories what is omitted from center piece - Rome’s propestity to civil war

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Virgil doesnt produce fast propoganda
there wasnt much pressure obviously for propoganda
Poets gave you immortality in the future
Put augustus into poem not describe his life but connect him with the idea of governance and art of rule by other means e.g. through Aeneas
Augustus will claim order
Bringer of Peace

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