Vergil

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Vergils Aeneid

• An Introduction

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The Trojans and the Sack of Troy

• TROJANS
• King Priam his sons Hector and Paris

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The Trojans and the Sack of Troy

• GREEKS
• Agamemnon Menelaus (the Atrides)
• Achilles
• Odysseus and Ulysses

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The Trojans and the Sack of Troy

• All of Greek city-states (united by King
  Agamemnon) vs. Troy
• Re Paris stole Helen Menelaus wants her back
• 10 year siege of Troy

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The Trojans and the Sack of Troy

• Achilles
• Subject of Homers Iliad
• Menin aeide, thea, Peleiadeo Achileos
• Sing, oh goddess, the wrath of Peleus son
  Achilles

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The Trojans and the Sack of Troy

• Aeneid Book II
• The Trojan Horse and Troy falls

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The Trojans and the Sack of Troy

• According to the Aeneid
• The warning of Laocoon (priest of
• Neptune) is ignored by the Trojans
• - Sinons (a Greek) deceit convinces the
  Trojans to bring the horse in
• King Priam is killed by Pyrrhus (son of
  Achilles aka Neoptolemus)
• - Aeneas (Trojan prince) takes a leading role
  in the citys defense

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Aeneas Flight From Troy

• Anchises Venus
• I
• Aeneas Creusa
• I
• Ascanius (aka Iulus)

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Aeneas Flight From Troy

• - Aeneas wants to fight
• - Creusa convinces Aeneas
• - Jupiter convinces Anchises
• - They flee, planning to meet other refugees at
  a sacred shrine to Ceres outside the city

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Aeneas Flight From Troy

• - Creusa dies along the way
• - The rest of the family gather with the other
  refugees
• - Aeneas leads them away from Troy

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Aeneas Odyssey

• Aeneid Book III
• - Thrace (Polydorus)
• - Delos (Apollos priest)
• - Crete (a new Pergamum)

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Aeneas Odyssey

• - Strophades (Harpies)
• - Actium (Trojan Games)
• - Buthrotum (Helenus and Andromache a
  mini-Troy)

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Aeneas Odyssey

• Italy and Sicily (Achaemenides, Polyphemus the
  Cyclops
• Drepanum (Anchises death)
• Carthage

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Carthage

• Aeneid Books I and IV
• - Queen Dido and her sister Anna
• - The marriage of Dido and Aeneas
• - Aeneas betrayal OR Aeneas piety?
• - Didos death

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Funeral Games for Anchises

• Aeneid Book V
• - at Drepanum
• - multiple contests displaying various qualities
  of the Trojans (and Aeneas)
• - epic convention

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Aeneas Visit to the Underworld

• Aeneid Book VI
• - Leaves Drepanum for Cumae (in Italy)
• - Cumaean Sibyl (Deiphobe)
• - Golden bough and Lake Avernus

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Aeneas Visit to the Underworld

• Sibyl leads him into and through the underworld
• - Charon and Cerberus
• - Neutral region (Dido, infants, etc.)
• - Tartarus (judges and sinners)
• - Elysium (Anchises, Trojans, future Romans)

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Italia

• Three races of people
• - Latins King Latinus, Queen Amata, and
  daughter Lavinia
• - Rutilians Prince Turnus
• - Greeks from Pallanteum King Evander, son
  Pallas

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Italia

• Aeneid Books VII-X
• - Turnus (Rutilian) is to marry Lavinia (Latin)
• - At first, Latins greet Trojans because King
  Latinus (Latin) thinks Aeneas is the one his
  daughter is supposed to marry

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Italia

• - Queen Amata (Latin) is enraged that her
  husband broke his promise to Turnus
• - Then, Latins (allied with Rutilians) turn on
  the Trojans and declare war

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Italia

• - Aeneas seeks an alliance with the city of
  Pallanteum and its King Evander
• - The Etruscans also ally with the Trojans
• - The Etruscans deposed leader Mezentius allies
  himself with the Rutilians/Latins.

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Italia

• Latins/Rutilians
• vs.
• Trojans/Pallanteum/Etruscans
• (King Latinus has abdicated authority and Amata
  is supporting Turnus as the new leader of both
  Latins and Rutilians)

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Italia

• Aeneid Books X-XII
• - Among all the battles, Turnus (Rutilian) kills
  Pallas (from Pallanteum)
• - Aeneas is enraged by this, as Pallas and
  Aeneas had become great friends

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Italia

• Aeneas challenges Turnus to a duel to end the
  conflict and decide who will marry Lavinia
• Aeneas defeats Turnus, and then kills him.

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The End