The Aeneid in

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Virgil Reciting Aeneid

The Prologue to

The Aeneid

Livius

Codex

Model of Troy

Venus and Anchises

Aeneas Entrusted to Nymphs

Helen and Paris

Hector Reproaches Paris

The

Dragging

of

Hector

The Rape of Cassandra

The Wanderings of Aeneas

BOOK 1

• Trojans Arrive at Carthage: "A Fateful Haven" "I sing of warfare and a man at war" (1)

Juno angry at Trojans (9-130)

Trojans in waters off Sicily (50)

Juno appeals to Aeolus: "Blow the Trojans off course" (90)

We meet Aeneas (131) [In Latin text line 70].

Neptune (Poseidon) saves Aeneas (193) [Latin text line 127]

Great Simile: rioting city/calming the waters (201)

Aeneas lands on coast of Africa (234) [Latin text 154]

Aeneas hunts deer (252)

Venus (Aphrodite) appeals to Jupiter (Zeus):

protect my child Aeneas (312) [Latin text line 210].

Jupiter reassures V. your Aeneas' fate is sealed, no change (347)

Jupiter enumerates Aeneas Roman fate (348-410)

Aeneas explores the coast of Africa (411)

meets his mother Venus disguised (425)

Aeneas and companions go into Carthage disguised (563)

Aeneas sees the art of Carthage with story of Troy (616)

Dido welcomes Trojans (762) [Latin text line 539].

Aeneas appears before Dido (799)

Venus sends Cupid/inflame Dido with love (895) Latin 650

Dido asks Aeneas: tell your story (1027)

First 11 Lines, Dactylic Hexameter Scanned

Judgment of Paris

The Trojan Paris

THE TEMPEST

THE TEMPEST

Neptune Calms the Tempest

“Hey, you winds get back where you belong!”

Aeneas arrives at Carthage

“These people work like bees!”

Venus Disguised as Huntress

Banquet with Dido

Book II

Aeneas Tells of Fall of Troy: "How They Took the City"

• Aeneas tells his story: "Sorrow too deep to tell..." (1)The Trojan Horse (21) [Latin line 15] beware of Greeks bearing gifts Sinon's treachery (96) death of Laocoön (275) [Latin line 200] Hector appears to Aeneas in dream (360) Aeneas recounts fate of Priam (659) [Latin 505] Aeneas meets Helen (741) [Latin 565] Great Simile: fall of Troy and ash tree (816) Aeneas and his father Anchises (826) [Latin 630] Aeneas and wife Creusa (880) Aeneas escapes Troy (960) Trojan refugees gather together (1035)

Venus sends Cupid to Dido

Dido Meets Ascanius

Banquet with Dido at her Palace

Aeneas Relates his Story to Dido

Sinon is Captured by Trojans

“Oh, the Lies, Sinon”

The Fate of Laocoon & Sons

Laocoon and Sons

Meanwhile,

The

Greeks

return from

Tenedos

Hector Appears to Aeneas in a

Dream: “Save Yourself!”

Close-up

Death of Priam at the hand of Pyrrhus

Nunc Morere! (Now Die!)

Because

they

didn’t

believe

Laocoon!

Creusa and

her Family

Aeneas gets the Household Gods

from Creusa

Creusa tries to Restrain Aeneas

Troy

on

fire!

Trojans Head to the Shrine of

Ceres

Aeneas Gets his Family

Anchises

holds the

household

gods

Anchises, if

you hadn’t

bragged

about

Venus,

Aeneas

wouldn’t

have to

carry you!

City in Flames

You follow behind, Woman

“Creusa,

if you

keep on

dancing,

you’re

going to

get lost!”

Keep

up

Creusa!

Aeneas

carries

Anchises

“Oh, Father,

you are so

heavy!”

“Hey,

where are

you

Creusa?

Gee, she

was right

behind

me!”

Trojan Refugees at the Shore

Book III

Aeneas Continues His Story: "Sea Wanderings and Strange

Meetings"

• Proud Ilium lay smoking in the earth (1) Trojans build a fleet (8) Aeneas meets Polydorus (63) Aeneas at Delos (100) Aeneas at Crete (183) At Strophadës with the Harpies (291) [Latin 210] Trojans at Actium (scene of Octavian's triumph over Mark Antony) notice Virgil attaches story to important Roman history Games of Ilium: "The men, all naked, slippery with oil" (378) Aeneas with Andromache who has survived the war (420) [Latin 310] Aeneas bids farewell to Andromache & Helenus (654) [Latin 486] Aeneas arrives in Sicily (758) Meet Achaemenides, story of Polyphemus (812) Death of Aeneas' father Anchises (938) [Latin 708] Trojans arrive on Carthaginian shore (948)

Polydorus at

Thrace

The Tomb of Polydorus

Delos

The Trojans sail from Delos

The Myth of Europa and the Bull at Crete

Penates to Aeneas

“Leave Crete, It’s not the Destined Land!”

Aeneas Encounters

the Harpies in the

Strophades Islands

Aeneas finds Andromache and the

Trojan Priest Helenus at Chaonia

Andromache trying to protect Astyanax at Troy

Death of

Astyanax as

he is Hurled

Over the

Wall of Troy

Prophet Helenus says: “Look for a Snow White Sow with

30 Suckling Pigs.”

The Cyclopes

at Sicily

Aeneas and Followers Flee

Cyclopes

Book IV

The Romance of Aeneas and Dido: "Passion of the Queen"

• Queen Dido in Love "the manhood of the man, his pride of birth, came home to her time and again, his looks...." (4) Dido talks with sister Anna Great Simile: Dido like a doe (95) [Latin 69] Dido mad with love, embraces his empty couch (115) [Latin 83] This is the most powerful depiction of sexual passion in Western literature to this date, a model for all Medieval evocations of the subject, every Medieval poet who writes about power of passion knows Book IV of Aeneid) Dido neglects the governing of Carthage (121) Juno and Venus confer (131) Dido takes Aeneas on hunt (168) [Latin 119] The storm (221) Latin 160 Dido and Aeneas in the cave (226) [Latin 165] "torches of lightning blazed" (230) "prisoners of lust" (265) [Latin 194] (another trans. "enthralled by shameless passion') Mercury goes to Aeneas, remind him of his duty (325) Aeneas stirred by words, decides to leave (380) Dido confronts Aeneas: "False one!“ (exact Latin) (417-18) [Latin 305] Aeneas: "Married? Who said anything about marriage?" (468) Think of the incredible ever-contemporary quality of this male-female exchange. First sex then discuss marriage and the guy says: "Who said anything about marriage" and you begin to understand why everyone considers Virgil one of "us" in a way Homer is not. Aeneas leaves (795) [Latin 573]Dido dies for love (906) [Latin 652]

Dido Makes Sacrifice to the gods

Dido Shows Carthage to Aeneas

Scenes from the Year spent

with Dido

Aeneas and Achates Building Carthage

Aeneas and Dido in their “Marriage Cave”

A False Marriage

Dido and Aeneas

Dido Burns with Love for Aeneas

Dido, Aeneas, Ascanius, Anna

Mercury Calls

on Aeneas

Dido confronts Aeneas and Begs Him to Stay

Aeneas

sails

from

Carthage

Dido Watching Aeneas Leave

Dido Abandoned

Dido Prepares for Suicide

Dido Commits Suicide

The

Funeral

Pyre

The People of

Carthage

Lament the

Death of Dido

Book V

The Funeral Games of Anchises: "Games and

Conflagration"

• Book V is an interlude between hot Book IV &

important Book VI

Virgil uses funeral games exactly as Homer had

done

Aeneas sees flames of Carthage from his ship (5)

Trojans put in to Sicily

King Alcestes greets them

Trojans stage funeral games on one year

anniversary of death of Anchises

Trojans embark for Italy

Farewell to Dido

Aeneas has Left Carthage

Funeral Games

for Anchises at

Drepanum, Sicily

The Boxing Contest

The Last Four Ships, Rebuilt after the Trojan

Women Burned the Rest.

Aeneas and Acestes

The New City Will Be Acesta

Aeneas and Men Sail Past Scylla and Charybdis

Venus Makes a Deal with Neptune; Neptune will

only Take one More Life... Hmmm, How about ...

Palinurus???

Book VI

Aeneas' Journey to the Underworld: "The World Below"

• Book VI is most important in the whole of the Aeneid. It is the keystone of structure both literary and philosophical. Book VI holds past and future together in Aeneid. It depicts the transformation of Aeneas: from inconstant earthbound boy to history-making man. The last of the Trojans is reborn as the first of the Romans. It is based on Book XI of Odyssey where Odysseus journeys to underworld. It is also the most influential book in any classical work of literature. Its evocation of the underworld determines all later renditions. Most important: it gives Dante the model for his Divine Comedy. Trojans arrive in Italy (1) Aeneas goes to Sanctuary of Apollo (15) Aeneas consults the Sibyl (prophetress) Deiphobe Aeneas addresses Apollo (92) Sibyl prophesy: "wars ahead" (132) Aeneas follows Sibyl's orders, goes to cavern (331) Earth opens, Aeneas descends into underworld (351) Aeneas and Charon (409) [Latin 300] Charon rows Aeneas and Sibyl across Acheron (520) Aeneas meets Dido (GREAT SCENE) (450) Latin 606 ideas of punishment in underworld (753) [Latin 560] Aeneas comes to the Elysian Fields (853) [Latin 637] Aeneas meets his father Anchises (918) Anchises explains the Virgilian Metaphysic (73 ) [Latin 724] The Prophecy of Anchises: Roman History (1014) Aeneas returns to earth, joins men, re launches ships (1219)

Passage to the Sibyl’s Cave

Descent to the Underworld

Book VII

The Trojans Settle in Latium: "Juno Served by a Fury"

• This Book begins the second half of the Aeneid. Virgil signals this invoking the Muses again line 47 as did in beginning.....so this another beginning. First six books modeled on the Odyssey; second half on Iliad. Now that Trojans arrive in Italy Virgil (an Italian who loves his country-see Georgics/Eclogues) can now use all his skill to describe the beautiful Italian countryside. Latium where they arrive is of course the area of Italy (now called Lazio) where the Romans will build the beginnings of Rome, thus King Latinus is early ancestor of the later Romans. "Be with me, Muse of all Desire, Erato, while I call up the kings, the early times,..." (40) King Latinus (60) Trojans pause on riverside, share meal (139) Aeneas remembers father's prophecy (155) "Here is our home." (160) Aeneas sends ambassadors to Latium (203) Trojan Ilioneus speaks at Latin court (282) Juno intervenes to provoke war (388) Juno's agent (Allecto) inflames Queen Amata against Trojans (467)

• Juno's agent inflames Turnus against the Trojans (580) Ascanius hunting kills tame stag of Tyrrhus (Latinus' herdsman) (654) Provoke war between Latins and Trojans The Gates of the Temple of Janus (827) Juno blasts open the Gates (for war) (851) Vigil enumerates Latin allies gathering for war (880+)

Book VIII

Alliance with Evander: "Arcadian Allies"

• Aeneas, worried about gathering clouds of war Aeneas lays down and receives godly advice: seek out King Evander Evander King of Pallentum, Greeks from Arcadia (70) Aeneas meets Evander (138) Evander welcomes Aeneas (208) Venus worried about Aeneas goes to Vulcan (Hephaestus) Venus asks Vulcan make armor for Aeneas (491) THE ARMOR OF AENEAS: History of Italy (557) [Latin 425]compare Armor of Aeneas to Shield of Achilles, Iliad, Book XVIII compare scenes and subjects presented.

Book IX

The Latins Attack the Trojans: "A Night Sortie, A Day Assault"

• While Aeneas away the Latins led by Turnus attack the Trojans. Turnus dominates the book. Turnus resembles the heroes of the Iliad. The whole book is a book of battle resembling the Iliad. Nisus-Euryalus resembles night patrol of Odysseus and Diomedes in Book X of Iliad. Books IX, X, XI are almost exclusively battle books and since Virgil never experienced battle (as one can assume Homer did) he fails to endow these three books with all the excitement of some of the other books. He includes them since he is openly choosing the Homeric work as his model and therefore must include battles, but one can see that his pacifist heart isn’t in them. They lack the spark and originality of Book IV or Book VI. ( He obviously DID know something about love, sex and death.)

Book X

The Battle Continues: "The Death of Princes"

• Book X opens with a Council of the Gods (1)

Jupiter (Zeus) orders other Gods to stay out of

the battle (141)

The Trojans besieged

Aeneas arrives at mouth of Tiber, Trojans

cheered (360)

Aeneas joins the fight

Valiant fight of Pallas, son of Evander the

Arcadian

Pallas killed by Turnus (671)

Aeneas battles and kills the old Italian leader

Mezentius (1097)

Book XI

The Latins Debate War and Peace:

"Debaters and a Warrior Girl"

• Body of Pallas taken in solemn procession to

palace of Evander

The old king mourns death of his son

Aeneas meets with Latin ambassadors (137)

Aeneas proposes one to one combat himself

with Turnus

Dissension in Laurentum among Latin nobles

Trojans advancing (622)

exploits of brave Camilla (726)

death of Camilla (1110)

Book XII

The Duel Between Aeneas and Turnus:

"The Fortunes of War"

• Turnus sees the Latins are losing

announces war will be decided between

him and Aeneas

the victor will marry Lavinia and proclaim

peace

the two men meet, Aeneas wins