The Aeneid

Question 1

Aeneas scholars

Answer 1

‘first roman… foreshadows qualities of a different organisation’

‘Homeric heroes are all individualists’ Aeneas = ‘social man’ - Williams

‘Founding father indulging in barbaric practices associated with celts’ - Morgan

‘Is but the shadow of a man’ - page

‘Surrenders to impulse which disgraces his humanity’ - Quinn

Question 2

Turnus scholar

Answer 2

‘Representing an older individual heroism’ - Quinn

Question 3

Women - quotes Aeneid

Answer 3

‘Surrounded by a great crowd of warriors’ - dido looks Roman

‘Have not kept faith with the ashes of sychaeus’

‘You have abandoned me’
‘My hands built that pyre’ Anna

‘Burning with all a woman’s passions for spoil and plunder’ camilla

Question 4

Women scholars for Aeneid

Answer 4

‘run the risk of making Aeneas a villain’ - Du Quesnay

‘our sympathy for Dido is so profound… reject roman mission’ - Williams

Cruesa + Lavinia ‘subvert to masculine plot of history’ - Oliensis

‘Great tribute to married love’ - Jenkyns

‘Have a license to appear in the poem as long as they operate like men’

‘Reverts to stereotype of being a woman’

‘Plot generated or mistreated by women’ - Morgan

‘Women who step out of the traditional gender roles are doomed to fail’ - reilly ko

Question 5

Portrayal of war — Aeneid scholars

Answer 5

‘Virgil in truth hated war’

‘Sadness he feels about the destruction of human happiness’ - semple

‘The urge to kill in its ugliest form’ - Quinn

War ‘leaves those morally unrecognisable’ - Mendelsohn

‘Virgil’s interest in the artist depictions of fine kill’ - Harrison

Question 6

Epic style - Aeneid scholars

Answer 6

‘Thematic and structural parallels to Homer are frequent throughout the Aeneid’

‘Transition from the ‘Odyssean’ to the ‘Iliadic’

‘Virgil transformed the old Homeric code into something new and roman’ - gransden

‘depicts scenes which the human eye does not see’

‘in sheer narrative speed and excitement Homer takes the palm’ - Pattie

Question 7

Dido quotes

Answer 7

‘she would cling to the couch Aeneas had left’

‘forgetting about their kingdoms and becoming slaves of lust’

‘Will you now resist even a love your heart accepts?’

‘Like a wounded doe’