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The Aeneid
The Aeneid is an epic poem written by Virgil in the 1st century BC. It tells the tale of Aeneas, a Trojan.
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If your asking to escape Troy it was his mother...Goddess Aphrodite..
How is Aeneas a heroic figure?
In the Aeneid, Aeneas proves to be heroic. First of all, he is an ideal Roman. He thinks like an ideal Roman:
1.Courage- Save the city of Troy
2. Loyal- Save the king
3. Faithful- Save the family
4. Obedient- Obeyed his mom and did not kill Helen
5. Leader- Leads others despite personal sufferings
He thought of all these things in order 1,2,3,4,5!
How is Helen saved from Aeneas fury?
Helen was the cause of the fight between the Trojans and the Greeks, so she was taken away until it ended.
When Hector visits Aeneas in a dream he charges Aeneas with what duty?
Hector advices Aeneas to flee Troy. Hector claims that Troy can not be saved.
Who did Aeneas abandoned in Greek mythology?
Aeneas, Aphrodites son, escaped from Greece, after the Troyan War and founded Rome in Italy. So you could say he abandoned Greece.
How Does Deiphobus use fate in the Aeneid?
Deiphobus, horribly mutilated during the sack of Troy, appears to Aeneas in the Underworld. He tells him the story of his death, which entails Helen's betrayal in signaling Menelaus to Deiphobus's bedchamber. He was mutilated in the sack of Troy. While with Aeneas, he begs the gods for revenge against the Greeks.
How would you describe the relationship between Aeneas and his wife?
They loved each other very much, forgetting that Aeneas also loved Dido for a period of time.
Why does Aeneas not stay in North Africa with dido?
Aeneas cannot stay in Carthage because of the prophecy of his destiny. He will go forth and create an empire that will place the whole world under its laws. Jupiter sends Mercury down to tell Aeneas to move on, so he must leave.
When does Aeneas last see Dido?
Aeneas last sees Dido in the Underworld. Aeneas and the Sibyll goes to the Underworld to see Anchises. Dido lives in the Underworld with her husband Sychaeus. Aeneas tries to talk to her, but she does not look at him.
How the gods interfered with Dido and Aeneas?
Venus makes Aeneas fall in love with Dido. She sends her son Cupid to take the shape of Ascanius. While on Dido's lap, Cupid makes Dido fall in love with Aeneas. Later on, Jupiter sends Mercury to visit Aeneas and tells him that he must move on to Italy.
Does Aeneas see dido in the underworld?
Yes, but Dido refuses to talk to him.
While this is true it is over simplified. Aeneas tells Dido that he is sorry and that he really didn't want to leave her but fate made him. Many times he refers to her as unhappy Dido. To which Dido replies that she does not want to speak with him and retreats to the arms of her husband, whom she was reconciled with in the Underworld. So to say she refuses to speak to him is not very good wording since she tells him she will not speak to him, perhaps she should have added further.
In book two of the Aeneid the two characters who warn against the trogan horse are?
Laocoon, a prophet of Poseidon, tries to tell the Trojans about the evils of the horse. As he speaks, two serpents arrive and eat Laocoon and his two sons. Later, Cassandra, a prophetess, tells the Trojans about the doom they will incur if they bring the horse into the city. Unfortunately, Cassandra has been cursed so that she speaks the truth, but no one will ever believe her.
Why did vergil write the Aeneid?
There are many reasons why the Aeneid was written. First off it was a commissioned work that Vergil didn't really want to write but was forced to, and it was incomplete at the time of Vergil's death. Possible other reasons why it was written are to validate the origins of Rome as mandated by Fate and the Gods (establish lineage of Augustus/ Rome), depict the origin of the dispute with Carthage, and to teach. The teaching was more of a social than a academic teaching though, by reading or knowing the Aeneid children would learn the appropriate funeral practices, the importance of piety, and so many other morals.
Is the Aeneid the Roman version of Homer?
The Aeneid is, and isn't, a Roman equivalent of Homer.
Before the Aeneid the Roman national poem was probably Ennius' The Annals. Most of the Annals has not survived, but what we have of it makes it seem more like a Saga (a loosely structured poem glorifying warlike virtues) than a true epic (epics have a more structured storyline, and usually a more developed set of ethics).
Vergil probably wanted Rome to have a proper national epic. Vergil's near contemporary Propertius wrote nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade ("I think we may be seeing the birth of something larger than the Iliad"). But at the same time Vergil realised that the Roman epic would need to be less realistic than Homer's poems are. Homer's poems were written at a time when war was still natural and accepted by the Greek city-states; to some extent Homer can get away with glorifying war. By Vergil's time war had become industrialised, and it was a nasty, murderous business (no matter how necessary it might sometimes have seemed).
Homer could show the good side to war (though he shows the bad side just as clearly). Vergil could only show war as a sometimes inevitable evil.
Vergil follows Homer to the extent that he makes the first half of the Aeneid a voyage (like the Odyssey) and the second half a landwar (like the Iliad). But unlike Homer - who wrote realistically for his time - Vergil chooses a tale from long ago and far away.
To draw a contemporary parallel: Homer's Iliad was somewhat like a film about a recent war (say Jarhead), Vergil's Aeneid would be more like a historical war film (Beguiled perhaps).
There are many points of similiarity between Vergil and Homer - but just as many differences.
Aeneas' son is called Ascanius in Troy. After arrival in Italy Ascanius' name is changed to Iulus, and he becomes the ancestor of the Iulia family - whose most famous members include Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar.
