CLASSIC 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Simile
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Born 70-19 bce, born in mantua in northern italy. Wealthy family but suffered from the civil wars. At the point of transition to emperors. Bk. 6 606-639, 1014-1222; bk. 8 847-928 (readings for aeneid) Names - don"t be overwhelmed or intimidated; glossary of names and. Epithets (various ways virgil refers to same character) Imagery - manners of comparison (similes and metaphors) I sing of warfare and a man at war - arma virumque cano . Arms and the man - 1894 play, questioning conventional values of. Arms - referencing homer"s iliad, man - homer"s odyssey. Homer took 24 books for iliad and odyssey, aeneid 12 books 1-6. Themes - importance of destiny, importance of suffering that aeneas must go through, punishment of the gods, invocation of the muse. Multiple and conflicting myths of the trojan hero aeneas. Allusions to caesar augustus, descendant of aeneas, ruler in rome.
