HUMA 1105 Lecture 23: The Aeneid Passage Summaries
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I sing of warfare and a man at war. From the sea-coast of troy in early days. By blows from powers of the air behind them. And cruel losses were his lot in war, Till he could found a city and bring home. His gods to latium, land of the latin race, The alban lords, and the high walls of rome. Tell me the causes now, o muse, how galled. In her divine pride, and how sore at heart when trying to establish the new kingdom of rome. From her old wound, the queen of gods compelled him . He gives a prophecy of the future telling them that troys kingdom will rise again, that it will not fall that it will strive his bride if he unleashes a bad storm onto the trojans. The wind king does so including the founding of rome by romulus : Aeneas will arrive in italy storm down sons suffering.