HUMAN 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Iarbas, Aeneid, Manifest Destiny

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMAN 1A
• Professor: L A Z O, R.J E N I S O N, D.

Document Summary

Repetitions: like odyssey, narrative begins in media res, with flashback (books 2 -3) Aeneas lands in carthage and during the banquet, dido asks him to talk about his adventures: very close replication of the homeric structure. Engagements: virgil fills out the gaps in between the iliad and the odyssey, => virgil creates a super epic (when you combine the 3, you get a complete story) (cid:858)(cid:373)a(cid:374)ifest desti(cid:374)(cid:455)(cid:859) (cid:894)(cid:373)oder(cid:374) ter(cid:373)(cid:895): the di(cid:448)i(cid:374)el(cid:455) authorized rise of the. Roman empire: a(cid:374)alogized (cid:449)ith jupiter(cid:859)s rule o(cid:448)er the (cid:272)os(cid:373)os, augustus analogized with jupiter! Virgil glorifies the ideals of rome but also stresses human cost: collateral victims; aeneas himself! => virgil is very aware of that: with, e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ples: pallas, dido, . Aeneid as a foundation myth: (proto-)roman civilization rises from the ashes troy: not the foundation of rome! Trojan survivors must identify, reach, establish themselves in their (cid:374)e(cid:449) (cid:858)ho(cid:373)e(cid:859: unlike odyseus! Troja(cid:374) (cid:858)losers(cid:859) (cid:373)ust tra(cid:374)sfor(cid:373) the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es i(cid:374)to (cid:894)proto-)roman (cid:858)(cid:449)i(cid:374)(cid:374)ers(cid:859: they start of being defeated by greeks.