book 2
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- book 2 fall of troy
- Virgil; shifts the focus from the fate of troy as a city to the fate of destiny of Aeneas as a man
- Narrated from Trojan perspective
- ghosts
- hector visits him in a dream telling him not to stand and fight but to leave troy and search for a new city
- she tells him that the heavens forbid them to be together
- melancholy
- she tells him of his destiny and how hes going to have a long exile to the west land
- he tries to hold her 3 times but he cant
- she represents his past which he cant hold onto
- he should take sacraments and household gods
- when Aeneas goes to find crusa he cant find her so he calls her name and her ghost appears
- hector visits him in a dream telling him not to stand and fight but to leave troy and search for a new city
- Aeneas disobeys hector
- he goes and finds his friends to fight
- he kills some Greeks and put their shield helmet and swords on
- this gives them an advantage as they kill many unexpectant greeks
- their fellow Greeks fall for their disguise and kill some of the men
- priam is killed as his head chopped off, this marks the end of troy
- Aeneas goes and finds Helen
- he wants to kill her for all the damage she has caused
- he also doesn't want her to go on and continue to have a peaceful life
- Venus doesn't appear in a disguise because their isn't enough time
- he encourages his men to fight
- he tells them that they're going to die anyway so they might as well die a noble death
- driven by kleos not destiny
- supernatural signs show that hes not deserting troy
- venus appears to retrain her son
- she reminds him of his family
- he is torn between civic and family values
- he goes to find his family
- Anchises says hes too old to leave and wants to die in troy
- Aeneas is in despair and wants to go and fight
- cresua says that if he wanted to fate then creusa and iulus will share his fate
- she holds out lulus to remind him of his responsibility
- cresua says that if he wanted to fate then creusa and iulus will share his fate
- Aeneas is in despair and wants to go and fight
- Anchises says hes too old to leave and wants to die in troy
- iulus hair bursts into flames
- Anchises takes this as an omen
- Anchises prays for another
- this is confirmed as a peal of thunder that lit up mount ida
- Aeneas carries achises on his back , iulus shall walk to the side and crusa shall walk behind
- demonstration of pietas
- crusa is left behind so he goes to find her
- she reminds him of his family
- he has a choice between civilic/ social responsibility
- following his duty or giving into passion and gaining personal glory
- when he puts on the Greek armour he is being dishonourable
- he is being as bad as the greeks
- so bad things happen
- there is a vivid image of him caring for his family
- this shown as a bad thing because bad things happen
- this marks the end of troy
- likened to an ancient ash tree
- farms have axed the tree many times and failed but now the wounds are fatal
- likened to an ancient ash tree
- The greeks are in Tendos but it appears they have sailed back to tendos
- they've left a wooden horse
- size of a mountain , pine trees used for ribs
- laocoon thinks its a trick and throws his spear into its stomach
- laocoon and his two sons are killed by two sea serpents that then run into Athenes temple
- Sinon is found
- tells them he was hated by the greeks due to his anger after Palamedes was killed after he said that he would avenge Ulxies
- Apollos said that if they wanted to leave then they had to sacrifice someone to ensure good weather
- Sinon was chosen but he managed to run away
- claims that the horse is a gift to Athene after Ulixes destroyed one of her temples
- if harms comes to the wooden horse troy will be destroyed by Athene
- if they store the horse and look after it then one day there will be a war between the Trojans and the Greeks and Athene will favour the Trojans
- they've left a wooden horse
- Cassandra warned them about this but nobody listened
- she's dragged from the temple of Athene
- Corebus is in love with her and cannot bare this
- she's dragged from the temple of Athene
- the palace of priam
- Mars in influencing a heavy battle
- Pyrrhus is described as a snake
- Pyrrhus gave polites a fatal wound, he managed to escape and reach his parents
- when he reaches his parents he vomited his lifes supply of blood and dies
- Pyrrhus takes priam to the alter and beheads him
- Priam tried to remind him that his father would be ashamed of him
- This reminds Aeneas of his own fragile father, his wife who hes left behind and the responsibility he has for the fate of Iulus
- Virgil; shifts the focus from the fate of troy as a city to the fate of destiny of Aeneas as a man
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