CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Rutuli, Mezentius, Aristeia
22 Jan 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
War declared- all out battle doesn"t start until book 9; strategizing, gathering troops and allies for aen. Turnus and the rutulians (his people) send to diomedes (from greek"s side) for help experience w the trojans, clever to seek his help. Italians don"t know how different the trojans are now since they"ve been through so much since the war- it doesn"t matter anyway, di refuses to help. Aeneas, instructed by tibernius (river deity) in a dream, goes to pallanteum to see king evander for help. Evander is always at war w the latin people, etc. The day aen arrives just happens to be the day hercules is being celebrated (he was deified upon his death) Pall celebrates hercules- civilizing hero, creates order from chaos (similar to. Jupiter, order from juno"s chaos, and aeneas, and augustus) Celebrating hercules was a real ritual in rome, not just a digression- fits into image of rome/augustus as calming and civilizing (thematic and contemporary connection)
