HUMAN 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Anchises, Turnus, Ascanius
1 Dec 2016
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The one indispensable man bearing on his shoulder the people"s fate. Roman notion of heroism: striving for collective good, not individual glory (cf. Rulers must sacrifice person happiness for collective good: compare aeneas, dido) A woman was a leader of this whole operation, sense of admiration. Yields to her emotional passion instead of reason and rationality. Women will only go after individual need. Tells the fury to direct the queen to dislike aeneas (book 7, 225 430) (226, feigning she is/she pretends to be taken) Wish to have fallen in battle at troy (heroic code of the iliad choice of achilles) In virgilian terms, a manifestation of heroic inadequacy: death is the easy way out. For the romans, empire = power + order. Winds would be utter chaos if let free. Winds are incarcerated and the mountains trap them. Harnessed but enough to undermine the foundation of the universe.
