CLAS 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Trojan War, Acerbas, Ascanius

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Classical Culture
• Course: CLAS 1010
• Professor: Erasmo

Document Summary

Virgil enters epic tradition in the shadow of homer. Named his subject warfare and man . Aeneas spends the first half of the epic wandering in search of a new home and the second half at war fighting to establish this homeland. Aeneas" first mission in the epic emigrate from troy to italy, as a fate already accomplished virgil uses past tense to show that what he is presenting is history. In the phrase our lavinian . shore, virgil connects his audience, his. Roman contemporaries, to aeneas, the hero of early days. Aeneas" name finally appears in line 131 this emphasizes aeneas" lack of important as an individual; his contribution to the future defines him. He is seen as a fugitive and a captain and therefore, a leader of men. He bears responsibility of bringing home / his gods introduces the concept of aeneas" piety through his duty to the gods of troy.