Condensed Aeneid

Key themes:

Father/son

• mezentius "Now you killed my son, you savage, you need not try to frighten me ...  i have come to die" - symphathy for a villainous character
• Aeneas&Pallas link to Marcelleus and Augustus
• "Ascanius in an armed embrace and kissed him lightly through his helmet"
• Leaves Dido bcs Mercury reminds him pof Ascanius' fate
• Jupiter &Mercury
  • "The relationship between father and don is the closest bond in the Aeneid" (Sowerby)
  • "Father-son relationship and suffering are central to the plot" (Cowan)

Furor

• Aeneas killing spree= "hot fury" "plunged into his breast" and killing "everything that stood before him"
• Ignores Turnus' mercy "if any thought to my unhgappy father can touch you, i beg of you"
• Turnus- "blazing with rage", wearing the "fatal baldrich"
• Symbol of fire- dido (death), ships via women in sciliy

Pietas 

• Aeneas follows Tiber advice in a dream and makes offering to Juno before the battle
• "I am…