CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Simile, Laurentum, Virginity
26 Jan 2017
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Etruia: a region in italy, home to the etruscans. Latium: a region in italy, inhabited by latins: ardea: a city in latium, home of rutulians and turnus, laurentum: a city in latium, ruled by latinus. The latins hold a war council: diomedes refuses to join them. Reworking homeric view on heroism: drances and turnus quarrel, turnus as achilles and hector. Does not earn sympathy like hector: turnus" outdated model of heroism. Power to stop but doesn"t do so. Greater good > personal glory (like aeneas) Lavinia, the cause of the suffering: woman, cause of fight, both men claim to be her future bride, no moral ambiguity like helen, doesn"t get a say, blameless, silent, passive. Camilla, leader of the volscians: not an object of desire, to be in domain of men, women expected to act differently from other women, virginity: emphasis on difference. A bellatrix, sharing features with amazons: female warriors who shunned company of men.
