ENGB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Dactylic Hexameter, National Epic, Aeneid
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Lecture 20: the aeneid books 1 and 2. Roman poet; patronized by maecenas, close advisor of the emperor augustus. Said to have been commissioned to write the aenid by the emperor. Worked on the aenid for more than 10 years: revisions not yet complete at the time of virgil"s death, requested in will that manuscript be destroyed. The aenid: regarded as the national epic of rome, modeled upon the iliad and the odyssey, written in latin dactylic hexameter (same meter as iliad and. The aeneid: overview towards italy in book 4. The trojan horse (2. 325-345: second half (books 7-12): war in latinum. Echoes theme of warfare in the illiad. Structure: twelve books, divided into two halves. Echoes theme of journeying in the odyssey: opens in carthage, retrospectively narrates the fall of troy and, first half (books 1-(cid:888)(cid:524): aeneas"s journey from troy to latinum (cid:523))taly(cid:524, begins in 7th year of aeneas" (cid:498)wanderings(cid:499) (cid:523)(cid:883). (cid:883)(cid:882)(cid:887)(cid:884)(cid:524)
