CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Deiphobus, Cocytus, Aeneid

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLASSICS 1B03
• Professor: Kathryn Mattison

Document Summary

Bracketed by the grates of the temple of apollo at cumae and the gates of sleep. Sets aeneas rmly in the his of rome. The nial arrival of trojans after 7 years of traveling. Consultation with the sibyl and another ekphrasis. Aeneas was told as soon as he arrives he must nd sibyl. A more complex process of arriving in the underworld, and a more developed underworld than in the odyssey. In the aeneid the purpose is to praise augustus. It is important for him to get it so he can get in and out of the underworld. Virgil is very different from homer here when he very carefully thinks about the mythical parts of the underworld and the different places in the underworld. The descent: full of monsters, and very scary. Rivers: cocytus and styx; charon ferries them cross.