Moral Values in the Aeneid (furor vs piety)
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- Moral Values
- pietas
- duty to the gods
- Aeneas is listens and obeys the Gods, when Mercury tells him to leave Carthage in book 4, he does
- He worships and prays to the gods throughout the epic
- When Juno torments Aeneas such as the storm, Dido etc he does not give up on his fate
- In Book 12 he prays to Jupiter and Juno before killing Turnus
- In the Prima Porta statue of Augustas there is a depiction of Cupid and Venus
- Duty to the family
- Aeneas has a very good relationship with his father
- He refuses to leave Troy because Anchises wouldn't leave. They only left after Anchises listened to the omens on a bright shooting star and a harmless flame on Ascanius' forehead
- He often thinks about what he owes to Ascanius. The god of the river Tiber encourages Aeneas to go to war because of what he owes to his son
- He somewhat sees Pallas as his son, he kills Turnus for justice for the death of Pallas in behalf of Evander
- In the parade of future Romans in Book 6 we see Aeneas' son with Lavinia
- In Book 1 Aeneas refuses to eat at the banquet until he gets his son Ascanius
- Aeneas has a very good relationship with his father
- Duty to ancestors
- Anchises shows Aeneas the future Romans and this is what all of Aeneas' mission and piety will lead him to
- Duty to dependents
- Aeneas' whole mission is because of his piety, what he owes to his future heirs
- In the Aeneid, it's only by being pious, by freely choosing to sacrifice ones own desires to the larger forces of fate, the gods, and family, that one can be heroic.
- Edith Hall calls Aeneas a pious hero
- duty to the gods
- furor
- Juno sends Allecto to infect Amarta with madness to try and prevent Lavinia and Aeneas from marrying
- Also infects Turnus and encourages Turnus to go and cause the war
- Dido was infected with a maddening love for Aeneas because of Venus and Cupid. She becomes infatuated with love for him
- 'the flame was eating at the soft marrow of her bones'
- Virgil often uses certain imagery to portray furor such as fire with Dido, 'she was on fire with love'
- 'the flame was eating at the soft marrow of her bones'
- Uncontrollable behaviour
- Once Aeneas begins to leave to fulfil his mission, Dido becomes enraged and she calls him a 'traitor'. She then builds a pyre to burn all of his things and then herself once she kills herself
- Aeneas experiences rage when he sees Helen in book 2. He is mad at her because she is the cause of the Trojan War
- Aeneas experiences furor with Turnus twice
- Once he kills Pallas, he experiences rage and kills everyone in his path when finding Turnus he 'harvested' bodies with his sword
- At the end of Book 12, he kills Turnus in a fit of rage because he is wearing Pallas' belt as a war prize
- 'blazing with rage'
- Juno feels furor when she creates the storm in Book 1, she is enraged by the Trojans and wants them dead
- Turnus' rage leads him to be compared as a wolf. 'in a fury prowled around the walls'
- 'Like a wolf in the dead of night'
- Juno sends Allecto to infect Amarta with madness to try and prevent Lavinia and Aeneas from marrying
- pietas
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