Aeneas unheroic
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- Created on: 15-06-18 14:46
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- Aeneas (unheroic)
- Furor
- plans to burn down Latium & smoke out T for 1-1 combat
- ignores ghost of H's order to escape
- 'frenzy & anger drove me on'
- lead young men to their deaths in Troy
- forgets what his father told him ('pardon the defeated, war down the proud') & ignores T's supplication
- his vioolent killing pf Turnus was merciless & 'blazing with rage'
- runs out of patience & chases T
- lack of pietas
- only after seeing Priam killed does he think of his father, wife & son
- challenges young man to fight him in front of his father & then kills L. 'burying it to the hilt'
- Jeers at mez. before killing him
- in B10 he takes 4 human sacrifices
- he kills suppliant (Magnus) & Haemonides (priest of Ap)
- kills Tarquitus 'while he was begging for mercy' & gloats over kill - homeric
- sees Helen hiding by altar & wants to kill her / avenge Troy
- has to be stoped by V. & reminded of family (again)
- Aeneas himself
- Juno
- 'a second Paris, and torches will again be fatal for this second Troy'
- Juno's bitterness towards him will lead to a 2nd Trojan war
- the first time we see him he groans & wishes he was killed by Diomede in Tory
- 'his limbs grew weak'
- puts on facade; he's isolated in his misery & grief
- Juno
- Underworld
- sees the spirits of monsters
- 'drew his sword in alarm...he would have rushed upon them & parted empty shadows with steel'
- 'Aeneas seized the branch instantly. it resisted, but he broke it off impatiently'
- suggests he may not be worthy of catabasis as it does not come off easily in his hands
- puts heroic prestige in doubt
- 'amazed & distressed' at seeing unburied souls by river Acheron
- leaves through the Ivory Gate of false dreams
- throws Aeneid into doubt
- questions why people would be reincarnated to experience more suffering
- sees the spirits of monsters
- Latium
- T calls him an 'effeminate Phrygian'
- Trojan stereotype or enemy's insult
- Amata feels like Leda when Paris took Helen - another connotation between A & Paris
- sends captives to Evander - orders them to 'sprinkle the funeral pyre with the blood of their sacrifice'
- excessive violence; homeric behaviour, barbaric to take human sacrifices
- T calls him an 'effeminate Phrygian'
- Carthage
- cowardly
- keeps plan to leave a secret
- highlights the neglect of his mission & people
- 'without a thought for the cities granted to him by the fates'
- similar to Dido's neglect
- 'without a thought for the cities granted to him by the fates'
- speaks to D. as though she's already in the past; denies they were ever married; uncaring & cold-hearted
- 'laying the foundations of the citadel & putting up buildings...glowing in Tyrian purple'
- Anthony & Cleo reminder - building Rome's greatest enemy
- Iarbus labels him a 'second Paris'
- ignoble, steals another man's woman & Trojan prince in foreign land
- according to Rumour, the 2 were 'indulging themselves', 'forgetting about their kingdoms' & becoming 'slaves of lust'
- Romans disapprove
- admires C - not admirable for Romans
- cowardly
- Furor
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