CLAS 430 Lecture Notes - Aeneid
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Classics 210: greek & roman classics in english. Iliad: rage, sing the rage of achilles virgil begins with anger too. Anger of juno (roman goddess, some liken her to hera) Personal realm of anger in the iliad (of achilles) towards something that has a grander scale. She favors the city of carthage (attacks the romans during punic war) She is a force of delay and resistance in the play. Wrath of juno is a cosmic disorder, manifested in the storm. Aeneas (trojan warrior) begins to wish he had died in troy. Details escape and then journey from ransacked troy. Story of the trojan horse - best greek warriors hiding in the horse. Death of king priam"s young son and then priam himself (king of troy) Priam is slaughtered on an alter symbolizing physically (and mentally) the fall of troy. Aeneas finally persuades his father and the rest of his family to retreat but wife is lost in the chaos.
