CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Rutuli, Mezentius, Aeneid
29 Nov 2016
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The trojans has a sense of desperation to nd a home and settle down. When they get to italy they nd most the locals want nothing to do with them. The all out battle does not begin till book 9. Turnus and the rutulians send to diomedes for help. Getting diomedes on their side is smart. Aeneas, instructed by tiberinus, goes to pallanteum to see evander. Rome at this time was not one uni ed country, but several tribes with several kings. The river advises aeneas on a course of action, he tell him to talk to king evander, of. Evander he is always at war with the latin"s. Hercules spent most of his life as a human though born a god. The celebrate with a shrine for hercules for the anniversary of him killing a re breathing monster in evander. It was only hercules who was able to defeat this monster.
