Clas 220 1st Edition Lecture 18 Current LectureQuiz1. Who is Aeneas’s mother?—Venus 2. What is the name of Aeneas’ son?—Ascanius 3. Who warns the Trojans about accepting the house into the city? – Laocoon 4. Which member of Aeneas’ family dies on the way to escape from Troy?—His wife Creusa5. Which woman does Aeneas encounter in the Aeneid?- Andromache Roman Mythology- They have specific gods and mythology of their own which is important to them – but they take a lot from the Greeks - Saturn, Faunus are important gods to the Romans. Mars( Ares) - Founding of Rome by Romulus and Remus Roman Equivalent gods Zeus: JupiterHera: JunoPoseidon: NeptuneDemeter: CeresAthena: MinervaDionysus: BacchusApollo: Apollo Artemis: DianaAres: MarsAphrodite: VenusHephaestus: VulcanHermes: Mercury Virgil the man- Publius Vergilius Maro- born in northern Italy wrote 1. Eclogues 3. Georgics 3. Aeneid PLOT- Wanderings of Aeneas, prince of Troy- Destined to bring his people to Italy (Rome)- First half: Aeneas’s Odyssey- Second half: Aeneas’ Iliad- Or Aeneas begins the story at home with his wife and son, end it fighting a war over a women (Backwards) AeneasThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.- Fights Achilles in the Iliad and states the similarities between them (mortal father and god mothers)- The only Trojan to survive the Trojan war – Greek cities that Aeneas went the their cities- Hero who is pius - Pietas- fulfillment of duity towards gods, family state, friends… - how pius is Aeneas? The poem book 1- We first meet Aeneas lost at sea - After he makes it to land he sees a temple that is the Trojan war- but his story - Dido- the queen she is busy making a kingdom - She is a good ruler- goes judgments and rulers (she is also a refugee) - Venus helps her son with dido- make his cute and cupid makes her lover him (cupid is Aeneas’s half brotherBook 2 - Laocoon- warns against letting the horse into Troy (he thinks it’s a trap) but serpents rise form the sea and kill him and his sons to death – they take this as an omen he was wrong - Fall of Troy from the Trojan perspective - Aeneas dreams of Hector- he tells him that he needs to flee the city - Before he flees he sees Cassandra getting raped (Priam’s virgin daughter) - The death or Priam- dragged in his dead son’s blood (humiliating death by Achilles son) - Aeneas and his family leaves - Creusa slips away- she is dead and her ghost appears to him and tells him to keep going and he has a new family waiting for him Book 3 - He violates a tree – tree talks and is actually Polydorus - Household gods come to speak with him – say to go to Italy - The Harpies- ruin your food – prophecy it find his place they have to eat their own tables- A new troy – Andromache remarried now and queen of the small state – attempt to rebuild the past - Pass the island of the Cyclops – right after Odysseus was there (find a Greek sailor was left behind) – Achaemenidies - The death of Anchises (his
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