Book 1
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- Book 1
- Virgil's introduction
- Starts with a succinct statement of the theme
- 'I sing of arms and the man'
- Aeneas is driven out of troy to the shores of Italy where he is to found a new race
- 'He came to Italy by destiny'
- asks the muse why Juno hates Aeneas
- he's fated to destroy Carthage her favourite city
- she dislikes the Trojans because Paris said Venus was more beautiful than her
- she also dislikes the Trojans because they are the descendants of Dardanus who is Jupiter's love child
- Begins 'in medias res'
- allows events to be narrated by Aeneas
- Starts with a succinct statement of the theme
- Juno's influence
- thinks its unfair that other females can defy fate
- Athenes influenced the drowning of the Argives due to the passion of Ajax
- as queen and Jupiter's sister she should be more dominant
- she goes to Aeolus the king of the winds
- winds are hold back in bolted gates like angry prisoners
- Aeolus is a demi-god and is king of Aeolia
- Aeolus will do what Juno asks because hes grateful that she made him a demi- god
- she also bribed him with an exquisite nymph for a wife
- Aeolus lets out the winds
- 'the winds blow a hurricane over the entire earth'
- Aeneas doesn't react heroically and panics that he's going to die a death without glory
- 'his limbs grew weak'
- Neptune calms the sea because he's the dominant one
- the ship that carried orontes is destroyed
- thinks its unfair that other females can defy fate
- Aeneas and his men arrive off the coast of Libya
- Aeneas looks after his men
- pus them in a cave to protect them
- goes out hunting and brings back the carcases of seven stags.
- restores his men with food, warmth, wine and shelter.
- encourages his men
- reminds them that they've suffered worse
- eg having the Cyclopes throwing rocks at them
- inspired them with the thought that one day they will be proud of these hardships
- he's certain that they will reach Latium as its been decreed in the fates
- reminds them that they've suffered worse
- Jupiter sends Mercury to ensure that dido is hospitable
- puts the queen and the Carthaginians in a mood to receive the Trojans favourably
- Aeneas and Achates
- meet venus who is disguised as a Spartan huntress
- she appears as an attractive woman to get his attention
- she tells them of dido history
- she fled from her pheocian city in tyre
- her husband revealed to her in a dream that it was her brother Pygmalion who had killed him over an alter
- he told her where hidden treasure was and she ran away with friends to build a new city
- Aeneas admires that dido has what he hopes to have
- Venus speaks of her knowledge of augury
- she saw 12 swans reach land which is assign that his 12 ships have made it safely to land
- Venus overs Aeneas and Achates in a cloud of mist to protect them fro carthagians
- as venus departs she reveals her identity
- Aeneas is annoyed that he can never see her directly
- meet venus who is disguised as a Spartan huntress
- Aeneas looks after his men
- role of the gods
- Venus's fears
- Aeneas has been afflicted with a large amount of pain
- worried that Jupiter has gone back on his promise
- hes promised that from the Trojan race the roman race will rise
- venus worried that juno will incite the phoecians against her son so she intervenes first
- ascaniss put into a deep sleep at sent to the idalian woods
- Cupid takes on form of Iulus
- Cupid breaths passion for Aeneas into dinos heart
- she forgets her stoic values
- Anteror has already founded a new city
- she doesn't understand why Aeneas is being punished for his piety and obedience
- Jupiter
- foreshadows that aenaes will be taken up to the stars
- treated like a god
- talks about a great war in Italy
- Ascanus will rule for 30 years and eventually move the kingdom to Alba longa
- Trojans will rule for the next 300 years to the foundation of Rome
- Romulus will kill Remus so that he can rule Rome alone
- gives rome a kingdom that will have no end
- 31BC Augustus will bring peace to Rome in the battle of Actium and close the gates
- Augustus is mentioned by Jupiter showing his value to the history of rome
- importance of Pax Augusta
- foreshadows that aenaes will be taken up to the stars
- Venus's fears
- building of carthage
- bee simile
- building a temple to juno
- under the roof are carvings of warriors in battle
- depictions of the Trojan war
- Aeneas recognises himself
- fame has gone beyond the sea
- Abundant resources
- under the roof are carvings of warriors in battle
- Illioneus appears to dido
- he asks her to take pity on them as they've been blown off their tracks try to escape from troy
- Aeneas 'has no equal for his piety,,,no equal on the battle field
- dido compared to diana
- Aeneas appears and him and Dido admire each other
- he asks her to take pity on them as they've been blown off their tracks try to escape from troy
- ironically similar to rome
- admire them for their values
- Virgil's introduction
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