CLST 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Solipsism, Georgics, Aeneid
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The odyssean aeneid (first part of aeneid is like odyssey, second part like iliad) In a world being destroyed by roman politics. Alludes to works and days, re-presenting it for roman audience. Takes farm life, makes it like myth. Odysseus is alone at this point, aeneas still has fleet. Od"s divine antagonist: poseidon (a personal grudge because od killed. Aeneas": juno (not personal-- just hates trojans, also lost beauty contest to. Another inversion: homer puts human actions in nature"s terms. Both get wrapped in cloud, received hospitably. Nausicaa? (both describe diana among her nymphs) Arete? (powerful, woman in a man"s job) Vergil takes all these elements to make reader rethink. Tries to shut it down immediately (storm to kill aeneas) Divine warfare through storm -- politicizes this. But tries to make storm at sea-- trespassed. Juno is only female character in this.
