CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Proserpina, Another Woman, Punic Wars
26 Jan 2017
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War between caesar and pompey: 49-46 bce. Battle of actium: september 31 bce (defeat of antony and cleopatra) Virgil and augustus: symbolic name: majestic and holy, senate bestow name: honor, title, power. Roman linking themselves in greek myth: gens iulia = julian family, claimed descent from venus. Morality and imperial destiny = augustus(cid:495) favorites. Aeneid is connected to roman politics, ideals: speak directly to augustan rome. Aeneid is teleological: a certain end the story is building towards, the glory of rome under augustus. Aeneas as proto-roman: not fully roman, embody everything augustus represents. Greek treachery, concealment, deceit vs. trojan openness, innocence, naivet : symbol: fire, darkness, snakes, contrast trojan and greeks. Ulysses as the height of greek treachery: odysseus in latin, using intelligence for evil rather than good. The horse, called an offering to minerva, while the greeks hid behind. Laocoon, priest of neptune: warns trojans away with spear, groaning, snakes wrapped around: sign to accept horse.
