Fate and destiny: Classicist Opinions

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Camps
Dido's death is an accidental result of scheming among the gods. Obsessive love is a demonic force, however decision to kill herself is due to own free will. Dido's dangerous love reminds Roman readers of Cleopatra.
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Quinn
Aeneid is deeply influenced by Athenian tragedy. Stories of Dido and Turnus are tragedies: humans caught up in greater forces beyond their control, make human mistakes and are partially but nor wholly responsible for their destruction. Tragic feeling caus
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Sowerby
Dido is the innocent victim of the Roman destiny, the sacrifice imposed by the Roman patriarchal state is most apparent in the protest of the sacrificial victim. Aeneas leaving Dido is also an act of self sacrifice.
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Sowerby pt 2
At the climax our emotional focus is sympathy for Turnus as the victim of inexorable Fate.
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Sowerby pt 3
Aeneid is a fatalistic poem. All about showing the powerlessness of mortals in the face of fate as well as their ignorance of it. Killing of Turnus is a manifestation of Fate, no equivalent in Homer of this ugly manifestation of the malignant power of fat
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Sowerby pt 4
Aeneas survives not by his own will and enterprise but because he is the chosen instrument of divine will.
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Gransden
Concept of fate dominates the Aeneid. Certain events have to happen but exact time and circumstances is not fixed. This leeway allows mortals and gods a certain amount of free will (concept became more sophisticated after Homer).
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Williams
Stoic philosophy present to an extent. 'Men should live in accordance to God's plan and should devote their lives to following it, never questioning why divine plan involves human suffering'.
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Aeneid is deeply influenced by Athenian tragedy. Stories of Dido and Turnus are tragedies: humans caught up in greater forces beyond their control, make human mistakes and are partially but nor wholly responsible for their destruction. Tragic feeling caus

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Dido is the innocent victim of the Roman destiny, the sacrifice imposed by the Roman patriarchal state is most apparent in the protest of the sacrificial victim. Aeneas leaving Dido is also an act of self sacrifice.

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At the climax our emotional focus is sympathy for Turnus as the victim of inexorable Fate.

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Aeneid is a fatalistic poem. All about showing the powerlessness of mortals in the face of fate as well as their ignorance of it. Killing of Turnus is a manifestation of Fate, no equivalent in Homer of this ugly manifestation of the malignant power of fat

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