CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Anchises, Atreus, Aeneid
31 Aug 2016
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Morality and imperial destiny = augustus" favorites. Aneid is connected to roman politics, ideals. Greek treachery, concealment, deceit, vs. trojan openness, innocence, naivet . Ulysses as the height of greek treachery. The hoarse, called an offering to minerva, while the greeks hide behind. Laocoon, priest of neptune (get killed, including his sons by giant big snakes from the water) Sinon, greek prisoner (hiding, sneaky and helps bring the fall of try, tells the. Trojans abut the fake story of the hoarse being an offering) Hector, in a dream (tell aneas about him hes about to loss, and to represent the fall of troy) Greek war crimes: rape of cassandra, neoptolemus (pyrrhus), like a snake, kills priam at altar. Aneas sees helen, burns with rage: fire imagery throughout the book (as a city of fire, ghost of hector his soul on fire) Venus guides aeneas (really stops him from hurt helen, but shes all aeneas mother)
