"due to furor, no decision Aeneas made at the end was conscious"
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Cowan (furor)
"furor is the most pervasive and destructive. force in the Aeneid"
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Cowan (Aeneas)
"Aeneas killing Turnus makes the audience question piety"
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Williams (Aeneas)
"not aiming to achieve personal success but the success of his people"
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Hardie (Aeneas)
"He surpasses his own personality to do what he is told"
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Parry (Aeneas)
"Aeneas is absorbed into his own destiny|"
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Armstrong (Ascanius)
"Ascanius shows Dido what she wants but cant have"
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Williams (A as Hero)
"Aeneas is different to a homeric hero because he suffers for others"
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Camps (A as Hero)
"Aeneas is like an 'automatron' or a 'puppet' because he is controlled by exterior forces"
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Williams (Dido)
"Dido loses all human qualities"
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Hall (Women)
"Women are the primary victims of the gods"
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Hall (Women)
"all powerful women die"
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Griffin (Augustan)
"Virgil does more than just flatter Augustus, he inspires him to lead like Aeneas"
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Gransden (Fate)
"Fate is fixed and you get there in doubt, this is where free will exists"
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Harrison (Gods)
"Juno is a 'soap opera *****', she is like other Gods in that she is petty, childish and trivial"
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Harrison (Death)
"there is a link between the theme of early dead and the early death of Marcellus"
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Williams (Death)
"Virgil sympathises with private sorrow and the Roman national regime"
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Camps (B10)
"The reader is meant to sympathise with Turnus although he is fatally misguided and bloodthirsty"
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Williams (B6)
"Book 6 sees the change of Aeneas' character from weak and uncertainty to strength and willingness to succeed"
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Mac Gorion (Augustus)
"Aeneas character is consistent with the ideals which Augustus was keen to promote"
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Griffin (Augustus)
"Aeneas is depicted as to be an example of Augustus not just a reflection"
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Gransden (Fate)
"the concept of fate determines the Aeneid"
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R.D Williams (fate)
Discusses the difference between short term fate causing problems in Homers Odyssey compared to the long term fate of 100 years in Virgil's Aeneid
"In a paradoxical way it requires cooperation of men for its fulfilment"
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Gransden (Father/son)
'the Aeneid is dominated by fathers and father-figures"
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Cowan (Father/son)
"father-son relationships and suffering is central to the plot"
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Sowerby (Father/son)
"The relationship between father and son is the closest bond in the Aeneid"
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Gransden (pietas)
"Aeneas' killing Turnus could be seen as pious as he had a duty towards Pallas and Evander"
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Jenkyns (Pietas)
"The constant awareness of duty and responsibility that makes Aeneas a new kind of epic hero"
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Gransden (pietas)
"Aeneas had a complex character, pious but also a great soldier"
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Gransden (Furor)
"furor ... dominated the last four books... this included Aeneas' actions"
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Gransden (Furor)
"even the most pious are driven to furor by war
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Williams (Furor)
"It is Aeneas who loses in the end"
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
"furor is the most pervasive and destructive. force in the Aeneid"
Back
Cowan (furor)
Card 3
Front
"Aeneas killing Turnus makes the audience question piety"
Back
Card 4
Front
"not aiming to achieve personal success but the success of his people"
Back
Card 5
Front
"He surpasses his own personality to do what he is told"
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