CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Iarbas, Aeneid, Omen

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

Document Summary

Ju(cid:374)o(cid:859)s ha(cid:374)d i(cid:374) (cid:858)(cid:373)arriage(cid:859) of dido a(cid:374)d ae(cid:374)eas. An ill-o(cid:373)e(cid:374)ed (cid:858)(cid:449)eddi(cid:374)g(cid:859: bad weather always signifies a bad omen. She breaks her oath of chastity after the death of her husband by sleeping with. Aeneas: oaths were very serious religious implication, the si(cid:374) that dido is (cid:858)(cid:272)loaki(cid:374)g(cid:859) is that she(cid:859)s e(cid:374)gagi(cid:374)g i(cid:374) a se(cid:454)ual situatio(cid:374) with a man that is not her husband. They are not actually married: nothing official, juno as the enemy of rome, dido as cleopatra. Virgil(cid:859)s politi(cid:272)al positio(cid:374): ae(cid:374)eas a(cid:374)d dido = a(cid:374)to(cid:374)(cid:455) a(cid:374)d cleopatra: the (cid:858)(cid:373)arriage(cid:859) (cid:449)ith a foreig(cid:374) (cid:449)o(cid:373)a(cid:374) that is po(cid:449)erful (i(cid:374) ae(cid:374)eas(cid:859) (cid:272)ase, Dido) is highly reminiscent of the union with antony and cleopatra in a. Aeneas is shaping to become more like augustus because he will leave dido to complete his duties. Aeneas is like odysseus in the sense that aeneas and his men are journeying home: homeric allusion: the hero dallying with a woman.