HUMA 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Aeneid, Odysseus, Helenus
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Destiny of aeneas is to found a new home after the destruction of troy. Relocate the gods of troy and place them in his new city. Trojan war starts because of a beauty contest between the three gods hera/juno, Juno serves as the main antagonist of the story. Juno also knows that aeneas will found rome, which destroys the city of carthage of whom she is the patron saint of. Idea that even the gods cannot stop fate. Juno tries to stop aeneas but she cannot oppose fate. Aeolus only helps juno by trying to force aeneas off course because juno is aeolus" patron: very roman epic. His transformation from the hero of troy to the hero of rome can be viewed as a kind of parallel of augustus. 201: a very political statement vergil is giving us, relating the seas to the civil war and neptune calming the sea to augustus placating the masses.
