CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Anchises, Stoicism, Argonautica
11 Nov 2017
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The augustan age: virgil was paid or commissioned to write this aeneid by augustus. Rome: he wants to make something like the iliad and odyssey but for rome, agrippa advisor to augustus, maecenas minister of propaganda, guy who gave horace and virgil money to keep them writing nice things about. Virgil"s land got taken so he has beef: 2) the georgics (a 4-book poem about farming, some singer guy orpheus and his wife (also used by ovid in. The aeneid: the story about aeneas , commissioned by augustus. From troy (greece) to rome: aeneas and his father, anchises, aeneas is son of anchises and venus, aeneas (trojan prince) Odyssey: venus is very much aware that dido is probably going to be nice to him but not. Greeks had left where this left behind guy was supposed to be killed by the. Greeks but they leave him behind to tell the story to the trojans he tells the.
