CAS EN 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Aeneid, Cyclops, Troy Book

• School: Boston University
• Department: English
• Course: CAS EN 221
• Professor: Professor Martin

Document Summary

Augustus commissions virgil to write an epic: involving religious reform (he wants to revive old time religion) This in uences how virgil writes: he"s commissioned to write for a culture that no longer shares these religious values, so the invocation becomes more of a literary trope than a true belief, and so on. Thursday, february 27, 2020: wants to celebrate rome. Virgil is not simply retelling homer or satisfying his patron. Important subdivision virgil isn"t just emulating the iliad and the. Aeneas was not as important during the trojan war but he survived and no one else above him did so the position falls to him. He accepts it because of his piety (vs in hebrew scriptures it is because of divine intervention, think jonah) All this is for an empire he never gets to see: juno is aeneas" divine opponent while poseidon is odysseus".