The Aeneid
Aeneid
It is a Latin epic
poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19
BC. It tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy,
where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It comprised 9686 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poems’
twelve books tell the story of Aeneas’s wanderings from Troy to Italy. The
second half tells the Trojans’ ultimately victorious war upon the Latins.
Virgil
He was an ancient
Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin
literature, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid.
Test Correction
commit suicide
fair: beautiful
invoke: to call
for
wreck: the act of destroying
or the state been destroyed
stab: to plunge
into something
Discussion on Test
Why is Juno angry at the Trojans?
Because Paris didn’t pronounce her the
fairest.
How does Venus make Dido fall in love
with Aeneas?
She sends Cupid, in the guise of
Ascanius.
Aeneas and Dido
Aeneas met Queen
Dido and got married in the cave. After few years, Aeneas needed to go
somewhere so he abandoned her and it caused her to suicide.
Characters of the Aeneid
Mortals
Dido: the queen of Carthage, a city in northern
Africa, and lover of Athena. Dido left the land of Tyre when her husband was
murdered by Pygmalion, her brother. Her love for Aeneas proves to be her downfall.
After he abandons her, she constructs a funeral pyre and stabs herself upon it
with Aeneas’s world.
Aeneas: He was a Trojan hero, the son of the
prince Anchises and the goddess Venus. His father was the second cousin of King
Priam of Troy. The Aeneid talks about
his journey from Troy to Italy.
Creusa: Aeneas’s wife at Troy, and the mother of
Ascanius. Creusa is lost and killed as her family attempts to flee the city,
but tells Aeneas he will find a new wife at his new home.
God or Goddess
Juno: the queen of
the gods, the wife and sister of Jupiter, and the daughter of Saturn.
Juno hates the Trojans because of the Trojan Paris judgment against her in a
beauty contest. She is also a patron of Carthage. She takes out her anger on
Aeneas throughout the epic, and in her wrath acts as his primary divine
antagonist.
Venus: the goddess
of love and the mother of Aeneas. Venus is a benefactor of the Trojans.
She helps her son whenever Juno tries to hurt him, causing conflict among the
gods. She is also referred to as Cytherea, after Cythera, the island where she
was born and where her shrine is located.
Jupiter: the king of gods, and the son of Saturn.
While the gods often struggle against one another in battles of will. Jupiter’s
will reigns supreme and becomes identified with the more personal fate.
Therefore, Jupiter directs the general progress of Aeneas’s destiny, ensuring
that Aeneas is never permanently thrown off his course toward Italy.
Cupid: a son of Venus and the god of erotic
desire. Cupid disguises himself as Ascanius, Aeneas’s son, and causes Dido to
fall in love with Aeneas.
Pygmalion[mythology]
Pygmalion: In Ovid’s
narrative, Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory.
According to Ovid, after seeing the Propoetides he was not interested in woman,
but his state was so fair and realistic that he fell in love with it. Pygmalion
begs the gods to give him a wife in likeness of the statue. The gods grant the
request, and the statue becomes alive.
Pygmalion married
the sculpture changed to a woman under Aphrodite’s blessing.
Pygmalion effect
It is the
phenomenon whereby higher expectations leads to an increase in
performance.
Galatea: is the name popularly applied to the
statue carved of ivory by Pygmalion of Cyprus, which then came into life.—How I make you,
you will be what I want you to be.
St. Christopher
Saint Christopher
He is a saint
venerated by Roman Catholics. This one-time Catholic patron saint of travelers.
The name means Christ carrier, is not mentioned in the Bible.
The story of Saint Christopher
One day, when he
was carrying a little child crossing the river. He felt the child’s weight
almost too great to bear. When they arrived on the other side, the child
revealed himself as Christ, and explained he was so heavy because he bore the
weight of the world.
Greek city—State patron gods
Origin: When
people faced an obstacle of emergency, they would asked for help of the
different deities, gods, goddess, mythological figures, and patron saints.
Patron God: It is a deity or sprit who is a guardian, patron or
protector of a particular place, geographic feature, person , lineage, nation,
culture or occupation
Patron goddess of the city of Athens
Athena: She is the virgin patroness of Athens.
Patron saint of travel
Hermes: he was the ancient Greek god of trade,
travel, wealth.
Movie: My Fair Lady [musical]
Professor of
phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can trained a Cockney flower girl,
Eliza Doolittle. The most important element of which, he believes, is
impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class
system of the day and a commentary on women’s independence.
Pygmalion [Play]
Film
Bicentennial Man: It
describes an android endeavors to become human as gradually acquires emotion.
Vanity Fair: It
follows the lives of two women, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, amid their
friends and family.
Music: You are so vain
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