Augustus And Rome Scholarship

Question 1

What does Nausbaum say about the end of Troy?

Answer 1

Nausbaum ‘the end of Troy is the beginning of Rome to Virgil’

Question 2

What does Feeney say about the death of Priam?

Answer 2

Feeney ‘there is an echo of Pompeys death in the depiction of prisms death’

Question 3

What does Fitzgerald say about patriotic values of society? (Referencing euryalus and Nessus)

Answer 3

FITZGERALD looks into a deeper ideological issue in which youth are decided by patriotic values in society leaving them to a false sense of security

Question 4

What does Cowan say about how we feel about Euryalus and Nessus, how does this relate to Roman propaganda?

Answer 4

COWAN ‘We feel sympathy and even admiration for Nisus and Euryalus… their desire glory and spoils is the cause of their failure’

Symbolic of not being greedy etc or distracted

Question 5

What does Papaionnou say that Evander symbolises?

Answer 5

Papaioannou ‘Evander is a symbol of the romans gradual acceptance of Greek values’