CLASSIC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Roman Mythology, Trojan War, Di Penates
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Conquered greece took her uncultivated conqueror captive and invaded rustic latium with the arts (horace, letters 3. 2. 156-57: age of augustus. Augustus ruled roman empire 27 bc - 14 ce. Virgil composed aeneid up to 19 bc: aeneid. Written (not sung) by virgil over 11 years. Roman mythology (romulus & remus; household gods: greek/roman gods. Zeus -> jupiter/jove: assimilation to greek myth. Neoptolemus (pyrruhus), achilles" son: roman myth. Julius caesar household gods: penates (god of cupboard) & lares (ghost of dead) Romulus kills remus when he jumps over an unfinished wall (idea of fratricide & civil war) Descendants of aeneas: aeneid 1. 1 - 6. Unforgetting anger of juno -> iliad, odysseus (poseidon) Juno hates aeneid; juno likes carthage, which would later be destroyed by aeneid. Juno replaces achilles in iliad (angry force that wants to mess up the plan: ways in which aeneid is modeled on homer. Jupiter: on them i impose no limits of time or place.
