HUMA 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Elysium, Latinus, Turnus

• School: Rider University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 111
• Professor: Mc Gill Scott

Document Summary

Eclogues books 5-12: book 5, funeral games held for anchises after leaving carthage. In kingdom of latinus, has a daughter lavinia and wife amata: latinus required to give daughter to foreign leader (accepts fate), realizes it is aeneas despite turnus being betrothed to her (juno inflames amata and turnus by sending. Idea that ro(cid:373)e"s rusti(cid:272) roots are here i(cid:374) this s(cid:373)all (cid:272)it(cid:455); lots of ju(cid:454)tapositio(cid:374) to (cid:272)urre(cid:374)t. If aeneas (cid:449)i(cid:374)s, the(cid:455) get a pie(cid:272)e of la(cid:374)d, if he does(cid:374)"t the(cid:455) lea(cid:448)e. Ju(cid:374)o (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:374)(cid:272)es jutur(cid:374)a to stir up tur(cid:374)us" troops to (cid:271)reak agree(cid:373)e(cid:374)t to tr(cid:455) a(cid:374)d sa(cid:448)e. Turnus; aeneas tries to stop breakout of fighting, statesmen again but shot with arrow in leg while talking, helped off field: aeneas pulls aside ascanius telling him the most important things to learn are courage and honor. Jupiter pulls juno aside and asks how much longer it will last- she has conditions that.